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Research in Other Countries => Canada => Canada Lookup Request => Topic started by: madpants on Sunday 23 November 08 11:33 GMT (UK)
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Is there any kind person who can lookup the Winnipeg Free Press please, I've found it on the newspaper archive.com but it needs a subscription.
I'm looking for any references to the 1928 Harvester's. They were some 6,000 men who were shipped over to Canada in 1928 to help with the harvest and it was basically a disaster. I'd never heard of it until I saw my Grandad on a ships passenger list with HARVESTERS written across the top of the page. There is very little online I can find about it and I think newspapers are about the best source, so anything in the Canadian press would be most welcome.
I found an essay in a book called 'The Developing West' which I have bought and I'm going to put out a request for a lookup on the Gale site if anyone has a sub.
If it's possible to save an image of the article please pm me and I'll give my email address for it to be sent.
many thanks
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Do you have a date for the article you found in The Winnipeg Free Press?
I tried doing a search looking for 1928 Harvesters but came up empty.
dollylee
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I g**gled british caged harvester's 1928 and it came up with the article in that paper on Friday September 7th 1928
Thanks Dollylee
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Good grief :P even with the exact date of publication I still can't get anything to come up on Ancestry. It has to be me. Sorry.
dollylee
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I got it up on newspaperarchive.com I don't have an Anc*stry sub at the moment.
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Please PM me your email address and I will sed page(s) to you
Bob
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More on the harvesters....
http://www.rootschat.com/links/04yz/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvest_excursion
http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/harvest_excursions.html
In the agricultural sector the high grain prices obtained during the war disappeared following the dismantling of the wartime orderly marketing system. However, crops were generally good, and despite the labour-saving new machinery coming onto the market, farmers still required a lot of hired labour, especially at harvest time. Railway-sponsored “Harvest Excursion Trains” annually hauled thousands of eastern and central Canadian men west during the 1920s to ensure that the harvest came off. The last major harvest excursions ran in 1928, when 24,000 workers came west to help with the crop; but by 1929 drought and low grain prices were taking their toll on the prairie economy, and fewer than 5,000 workers were required from the east.
bottom right of 475 & top of 476
http://www.rootschat.com/links/04z1/
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I have articles written in the Toronto Star & Globe and Mail about the Harvester's. They are too large to post on the site, but if you would like them, send me a "personal message" with your email and I will send them through to you.
Janice
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Here are more articles.
Our future our past
(Alberta newspapers)
http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/
Just search for year, then you can check each of the cities.
Janice
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Thank you very much for those links JJ and Janice ;D
and many thanks also to Stonechat for the newspaper clippings ;D
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I have articles written in the Toronto Star & Globe and Mail about the Harvester's. They are too large to post on the site, but if you would like them, send me a "personal message" with your email and I will send them through to you.
Janice