Part 1 of “My Dad was an Old Thresherman”
Another episode in: They were Set Down in Dalhousie Township”– Effie Park Salkeld
It didn’t matter where you lived threshing was threshing. This story will be done in two parts and thank you to Beverly Salkeld from Winnpeg Manitoba whose family Grandmother Effie Edna Park Salkeld was born to Duncan and Mary Mcintosh Park in Lanark County in October of 1892 and died at Langenburg Hospitial in Saskatchewan April 19th Easter Sunday in 1965. She is buried in Gerald United Cemetery Saskatchewan
Dobbie Road in Lanark County
Photo- Linda Seccaspina Plowing Match on Mr. Dobson’s farm outside Smiths Falls
Photo- Linda Seccaspina Plowing Match on Mr. Dobson’s farm outside Smiths Falls
Photo- Linda Seccaspina Plowing Match on Mr. Dobson’s farm outside Smiths Falls
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Photo- Linda Seccaspina Plowing Match on Mr. Dobson’s farm outside Smiths Falls
Photo- Linda Seccaspina Plowing Match on Mr. Dobson’s farm outside Smiths Falls
Photo- Linda Seccaspina Plowing Match on Mr. Dobson’s farm outside Smiths Falls
Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read.
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in Hometown News and now in The Townships Sun
Related reading:
Part 1 of “My Dad was an Old Thresherman”
They were Set Down in Dalhousie Township”– Effie Park Salkeld
Eggs 10 Cents a dozen–Farmers Markets of Smiths Falls and Almonte 1880 and 1889
Lanark Farm Life is Not so Bad- 1951
Once Upon a Time on the Farm
Farming Could be a Dangerous Business in Lanark County? Who Do You Know?
She Doesn’t Think My Tractor is Sexy–The Farmer’s Wife 1889
Come and visit the Lanark County Genealogical Society Facebook page– what’s there? Cool old photos–and lots of things interesting to read.
Information where you can buy all Linda Seccaspina’s books-You can also read Linda in Hometown News and now in The Townships Sun