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The horse and buggy provide the main form of transportation for Ontario's Old Order Mennonites
The horse and buggy provide the main form of transportation for Ontario's Old Order Mennonites

The horse and buggy provide the main form of transportation for Ontario's Old Order Mennonites

Date12/20/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: The horse and buggy provide the main form of transportation for Ontario's Old Order Mennonites.
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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_0026867F
Horsepower means horsepower to the Old Order Amish, the 'plain people' who travel in black buggies, farm with horse-drawn plows, use wood-burning stoves for heat and kerosene lamps for light
Horsepower means horsepower to the Old Order Amish, the 'plain people' who travel in black buggies, farm with horse-drawn plows, use wood-burning stoves for heat and kerosene lamps for light
12/11/1979
Mennonites mark a simple Christmas, Mennonite children sit bundled in the back of a carriage as they prepare for a winter journey to attend a Sunday s(...)
Mennonites mark a simple Christmas, Mennonite children sit bundled in the back of a carriage as they prepare for a winter journey to attend a Sunday s(...)
12/20/1986
Horses Are Tethered, to the cemetery fence near the Mennonite hall in Elmira, in the area where many Old Order Amish have farms. The Amish don't use c(...)
Horses Are Tethered, to the cemetery fence near the Mennonite hall in Elmira, in the area where many Old Order Amish have farms. The Amish don't use c(...)
11/20/1973
Amish Buggy on a road in Aylmer passes a stack of the milk cans that the Ontario Milk Marketing Board wants to abolish
Amish Buggy on a road in Aylmer passes a stack of the milk cans that the Ontario Milk Marketing Board wants to abolish
10/21/1977
This land is ours, a pageant depicting the long pilgrimage of the Mennonites from Europe to western Ontario, contains a cast of present-day Mennonites(...)
This land is ours, a pageant depicting the long pilgrimage of the Mennonites from Europe to western Ontario, contains a cast of present-day Mennonites(...)
9/25/1972
There's a new look at Mennonite fair, Visitors to the annual Mennonite Relief Sale in New Hamburg, Ont
There's a new look at Mennonite fair, Visitors to the annual Mennonite Relief Sale in New Hamburg, Ont
5/20/1969
This restored surrey with a fringe on top will be auctioned at Mennonite sale
This restored surrey with a fringe on top will be auctioned at Mennonite sale
5/15/1974
Mennonites tear down Barn, piece by piece, A 50-strong Mennonite group from the Elmira area on Monday tore down a huge barn in Vaughan, on the east si(...)
Mennonites tear down Barn, piece by piece, A 50-strong Mennonite group from the Elmira area on Monday tore down a huge barn in Vaughan, on the east si(...)
5/4/1990
Pony cart rides were one of the events of the fair staged by Mennonites Saturday in New Hamburg to raise more than $90,000 for the Mennonite Central C(...)
Pony cart rides were one of the events of the fair staged by Mennonites Saturday in New Hamburg to raise more than $90,000 for the Mennonite Central C(...)
5/27/1973
Old order ways
Old order ways
12/11/1979
Disillusioned Mennonites tell of civil war violence, moral corruption, lack of farming land and other difficulties that beset the new colony in Paragu(...)
Disillusioned Mennonites tell of civil war violence, moral corruption, lack of farming land and other difficulties that beset the new colony in Paragu(...)
11/19/1948
Mennonites - 1924 - 1969
Mennonites - 1924 - 1969
8/23/1924