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Farmers at the annual Muck Growers' Conference.

Marsh growers meet with the Ontario Minister of Agriculture, the Hon. William Stewart (with hat).

Clam digger mounted on a barge cleaning the river to improve drainage to the pumps.

An onion topper, the first step in harvest mechanization on the marsh.

Mrs. Katarina Spek made the front cover of one of the Toronto newspapers after Hurricane Hazel struck. The caption reads: "Work of saving what they can from desolation of what was one of Canada's richest market gardening areas continues. Mrs. Rudolf Spek, mother of three children, including a son in the Canadian Army in Korea, has salvaged a bag of onions."

Side view of Emerson's machine at Cattrells Garage 1930-39 (across from the mill). Emerson Faris and Gurnel Peterman (middle).

Freshly broken marshland in 1946. The break in the tree line is for Highway 400.

A section of one of the work sheds built for the Selkirk Gardens operation, still in use today, on the north canal bank, west of Simcoe Road, built about 1929.

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