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Steam is king for a day. In the days before the internal-combustion engine, steam was king on the farm as well as on the railways and in steamships. T(...)
Steam is king for a day. In the days before the internal-combustion engine, steam was king on the farm as well as on the railways and in steamships. T(...)

Steam is king for a day. In the days before the internal-combustion engine, steam was king on the farm as well as on the railways and in steamships. T(...)

Date8/27/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: Steam is king for a day. In the days before the internal-combustion engine; steam was king on the farm as well as on the railways and in steamships. The Uxbridge Scott Historical Society recalled those days with its seventh annual Steam Threshing Days at Uxbridge. The venerable steam tractors; antique cars and trucks; Indian crafts and other displays attracted of people to the town's fairgrounds. Harold Archdekin is giving children a free ride on his home-made steam tractor.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0006128F
A head of steam at Uxbridge. The Uxbridge-Scott Historical Society held its sixth annual Steam Threshing Days at the Quaker Hill Museum Grounds on Sat(...)
A head of steam at Uxbridge. The Uxbridge-Scott Historical Society held its sixth annual Steam Threshing Days at the Quaker Hill Museum Grounds on Sat(...)
8/28/1977
A farm festival: Sherwood Hume drives a 1913 Sawyer-Massey Steam traction engine
A farm festival: Sherwood Hume drives a 1913 Sawyer-Massey Steam traction engine
8/9/1981
Still running: Wilfrid Leslie to Halton Hills gets his 1919 traction steam engine ready for the Steam Era Show in Milton this weekend
Still running: Wilfrid Leslie to Halton Hills gets his 1919 traction steam engine ready for the Steam Era Show in Milton this weekend
8/23/1982
Steamed up: Whistles on steam engine provided music to ears of city and country folk who turned up for the 11th annual steam show
Steamed up: Whistles on steam engine provided music to ears of city and country folk who turned up for the 11th annual steam show
8/30/1982
Model steam engine, "Little Wonder," operated at Scarboro Beach Park, 1907-1925, Toronto, Ontario.
Model steam engine, "Little Wonder," operated at Scarboro Beach Park, 1907-1925, Toronto, Ontario.
1975 circa
Oldtimer: David Stirk gives his son Iain, 8, a ride aboard his 1919 Sawyer Massey steam engine
Oldtimer: David Stirk gives his son Iain, 8, a ride aboard his 1919 Sawyer Massey steam engine
8/26/1995
Old but they can still cut it. The sawdust was flying during the weekend when Roy Botterill (left) cranked up this 1906 Massey-Sawyer steam engine and(...)
Old but they can still cut it. The sawdust was flying during the weekend when Roy Botterill (left) cranked up this 1906 Massey-Sawyer steam engine and(...)
4/23/1979
Hundreds of cords of wood had to be cut to keep up full heads of steam in varous old time farm tractors and machinery that buffed and puffed nostalgic(...)
Hundreds of cords of wood had to be cut to keep up full heads of steam in varous old time farm tractors and machinery that buffed and puffed nostalgic(...)
8/5/1974
Riding high, Guy Sanvido straddles one of two old steam locomotives that will be parked on Queen's Quay for the next year to be refurbished as a tourist attraction for the Collingwood area
Riding high, Guy Sanvido straddles one of two old steam locomotives that will be parked on Queen's Quay for the next year to be refurbished as a tourist attraction for the Collingwood area
8/5/1981
Just steaming along. More than 1,200 people turned out for the fourth annual steam show Saturday and Sunday at the Uxbridge-Scott Museum, where crafts(...)
Just steaming along. More than 1,200 people turned out for the fourth annual steam show Saturday and Sunday at the Uxbridge-Scott Museum, where crafts(...)
8/24/1975
A drawing of an antique fire engine, with various firefighting tools depicted on the ground in ...
Rescue fire engine, Engine Company No. 2
Between 1850 and 1900
A painting of an antique fire engine with "PHOENIX No. 1" written on its side.
Phoenix fire engine, Engine Co. no. 1
Approximately 1914