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Old pole beams, rough-hewn timbers and planks create pioneer atmosphere as he tends to his chores
Old pole beams, rough-hewn timbers and planks create pioneer atmosphere as he tends to his chores

Old pole beams, rough-hewn timbers and planks create pioneer atmosphere as he tends to his chores

Date2/5/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Old pole beams; rough-hewn timbers and planks create pioneer atmosphere as he tends to his chores
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0023178F
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'Farms are good for children,' says Mark Godfrey, whose son Jeremiah helps with the chores
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At 67, after farming near Mount Forest for 27 years, Bill Hodges wants to turn his farm over to his son and retire
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Once a teacher, Mark Godfrey quit to move his wife Robin and son Jeremiah into the country
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Jim Hewson says his father's farm might as well be used for housing because soil quality has been depleted by tenant farmers
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Farms for sale: Joe Gray still plows the Brampton area farm his family carved out in 1823, but more and more neighbors are giving up on the struggle to produce food in the urban shadow
Farms for sale: Joe Gray still plows the Brampton area farm his family carved out in 1823, but more and more neighbors are giving up on the struggle to produce food in the urban shadow
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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
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
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Farmer Paul Lemauviel stands in a wheat field with his family near Duck Lake, Sask
Farmer Paul Lemauviel stands in a wheat field with his family near Duck Lake, Sask
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