Letter from E. Burnham to Robert Baldwin, July 24, 1837

IIIF

Letter from E. Burnham to Robert Baldwin, July 24, 1837

Date1837-07-24

Names

Burnham, E. (author)

Geary, Mrs (subject)

Format

Manuscript

Notes

Letter from E. Burnham to Robert Baldwin, July 24, 1837. ||Letter concerning Mrs Geary's land and cow. Includes transcription.||Address page torn off.||

Subject

Farm life

Farm tenancy

Farmers

Medium

Correspondence

Dimensions||22.5 x 18 cm||

Language

English

CollectionBaldwin Collection of Canadiana

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession NumberOHQ-MANU-C-W-1005

Country:Canada

Province or state:Ontario

Discover More

Farmer Troubles

Approximately 1890

Keeping the wolf from the door, Inga Britt has lost 22 lambs to coyotes at her farm on the Ninth Line in Mississauga and is so determined to save the (...)

7/29/1985

Seeing double: Franz Henke watches as Bam Bam and Pebbles, the latest pair of twin calves born on his Goodwood-area farm, get a meal from their mother

6/3/1992

Seeing double: Franz Henke watches as Bam Bam and Pebbles, the latest pair of twin calves born on his Goodwood-area farm, get a meal from their mother

6/3/1992

Will of Thomas Copeland, farmer

1822

It's business as usual, or better, when women like Patti Alsop run the family firm

2/25/1983

Borrowing money is the only way farmers are able to keep off welfare, according to Del Busche, whose income has dropped sharply with the falling price of grain

1/16/1970

Billy Bayles, whose 87-acre farm lies just south of Brougham, decided there was no use trying to fight Queen's Park and sold the farm to the government. Now many of his neighbors won't speak to him

5/8/1973

Food prices have been increasing rapidly in recent months and consumers will have to pay even more in the future, Ontario farmers warn. Joe Alexander,(...)

5/30/1974

Debt-ridden farmers: George Bothwell, left, and Jerry Riddell, both carry huge debts caused by high interest rates

6/4/1981

Glenn Coates has no shiny, new equipment on his farm

10/5/1986

Eugene Bourgeois

7/24/1986