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A photograph of nine people working on a farm with hoes and shovels. They are wearing hats and ...

Arts & Letters Club Farm, York Mills, Ont., 1918

1918

Lawrence, John, farm, Yonge Street, northwest corner Lawrence Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario. Im ...

Lawrence, John, farm, Yonge Street, northwest corner Lawrence Avenue West, Toronto, Ontario

c. 1895

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

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

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

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,(...)

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

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

Glenn Coates has no shiny, new equipment on his farm

10/5/1986

Eugene Bourgeois

Eugene Bourgeois

7/24/1986

Bankrupt farmers

Bankrupt farmers

2/11/1985

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 (...)

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

Farmer-mother: Patti Alsop went to university for a veterinarian's degree and returned a farmer she won't consider any other life for daughters Meghann, 2, (above) and Jessie, 6 months

Farmer-mother: Patti Alsop went to university for a veterinarian's degree and returned a farmer she won't consider any other life for daughters Meghann, 2, (above) and Jessie, 6 months

2/25/1983

7/29/1985

Carl Cosak of Honeywood, Ont., is one of a growing number of beef ranchers who shun the normal pratice of putting antibiotics in animal feed. It's har(...)

Carl Cosak of Honeywood, Ont., is one of a growing number of beef ranchers who shun the normal pratice of putting antibiotics in animal feed. It's har(...)

10/26/1988

Endangered breed: University of Guelph students John Holtrop, left, Teresa Sheardown and Mark Mitchell plan to stick with agriculture through good times and bad

Endangered breed: University of Guelph students John Holtrop, left, Teresa Sheardown and Mark Mitchell plan to stick with agriculture through good times and bad

2/1/1989

Lifelong attachment

Lifelong attachment

2/25/1983

Bill & John Devries

Bill & John Devries

3/21/1983

Bill & John Devries

Bill & John Devries

3/15/1983

Uneven increase: Dairy farmers have seen stable income growth, while others have done variously better or worse than Ontario's average 13 percent hike in realized farm net income

Uneven increase: Dairy farmers have seen stable income growth, while others have done variously better or worse than Ontario's average 13 percent hike in realized farm net income

2/1/1983

East Caledon dairy farmer Jim Early, 65, has learned the land his family started working in 1914 is one of 57 proposed sites for a dump and may take g(...)

East Caledon dairy farmer Jim Early, 65, has learned the land his family started working in 1914 is one of 57 proposed sites for a dump and may take g(...)

6/4/1992