Walter Lloyd on the tractor with his daughter Helen on his knee. John Lloyd and Isobel Kneeshaw on the tractor and Steve Katrinak (hired hand) on the binder.
New Allis Chalmers tractor on the Lloyd farm. John on seat, Steve (hired hand) on top, Walter standing behind, Laura at front and daughter Helen seated by wheel. Tractor was purchased for $500.00 and in approx. 1949/50 sold it for $800.00
"After Thursday last it surely can be agreed that there never was a truer statement than "I love a parade." Wednesday evening the average citizen about town figured that Thursday's plans were going to "flop" - no one seemed to know much about them and we who had announced these plans on information given us began to have that peculiar sensation, familiar to most people in the newspaper business of "having stuck our necks out." However, we'll have more faith the next time if George Carson is left in charge of local organization." ...
"Toronto - The Canadian Mobile Home Association has announced an offer to provide more than two hundred mobile homes at cost price to victims of the Ontario flood. The C.M.H.A. has pulled its dealers from Winnipeg to Quebec City. Mobile homes can be made available on twenty-four hours' notice and hauled immediately to the stricken areas. ..."
Part of the mural on the south of 13 John St. This section depicts the Prosperous Farmlands of the Holland Marsh and West Gwillimbury. The names around the mural are Gwillimdale Farms Ltd., Westkal Farms Ltd., Langford Farms (From David, Michelle Langford and Family). The sponsor in the stamp on the bottom left is MAV Inc., run by Manuel Fernandes.
