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PLOW ISSFE Ul iHu tlowluuutla inn ALLISTONBARRIE OCT 10 ilUiiilil1tltlti xluuaoualliuuuuubliltl itliibuvw Innisfil Tecumseth VILLAGES Coldwater Treasurer The County of SIMCOE COUNTY COUNCIL 1950 TOWNSHIPS REEVES Adjala Claud Hall Essa Wood F108 Walter Middleton Clifford Lockhart Matchedash Noble Levering Medonte Fisher Canton Nottawasaga Donald Brawn Orlliia Wilbur Reed Oro John Woodrow Sunnldale James Buie Tay Fred Kinnear Leonard Ransom Tiny Tossorontio arl Stephens Vespra Earl Riehardon Gwillimbur Herbert Hughes TOWNS Alliston Mackenzie Beattie Barrie James Hart Collingwood Norman Bush Midland Orillia Hugh Johnston Penetang Wm Benson Stayner Clarence Wood William King Frank Allan Andrew Dunlop Gearge Shepherd Beeton Bradford Creemore Elmvale LaWson Robinson Port McNicoll Albert Calvert Tottenham James McCurdy Victoria Harbour Wilfred Savage Wasaga Beach Anthony Beck BENSON FRED HUNTER amen Yrr uvirrxcetrVrr 22 on 52 HARRY COLEMAN JONES Arthur Downer John cowan WELCOME TO llistoric old Silncoe County the northern portion of which is known as liuronia named after Sir John Graves Simcoe who visited tllis area ill 1793 welcomes you to the International Plowing Match Ill 1610 Etienne Brule first white resident and discover er of the Great Lakes lived with the Huron Illdialls at lelletallguishcne alld seventy years later British military post was established there Simcoe District Council was organized ill 1843 and over century of progress has followed Thousands of visitors every year come to see old Fort Ste Marie now being restored near Midland the Martyrs Shrine nearby built to perpetuate the memory of massacred Jesuit Missionaries St Ignace near Victoria Harbour where Breboui and Lalemant met death The Ilull of the Nancy at Wasaga Bellch the old otticers quarters St James Garrison Church the remains of the Tigress and the many plaques are points of interestillPenetanguishene The magnificent Champlain monument at Orillia and the museums at Mid land Barrie and Collingwood are well worth seeing Simcoe with over 10000 acres reforestcd leads all others Visit the Midhurst Nursery Springwater Park nearby alld the Angus Seed Extraction plant Barrie October 1950 VSIMCOE COUNTY Southern Simeoe site of the Plowing Match with its rich tobacco and potato lands bred cattle and fertile farms Sir Frederick Banting renowned for insulin discovery was born near Alliston most modern composite school to be known as the Banting Memorial School is being built there is also famed for its pure very fine hospital richly endowed by the late Loblaw another native son is also located in Ailiston Glenatton farm just north of Alliston is the home of lilarksman jointly owned by McCague and Cerswell of Bond llead llolsteins from these two farms are prominent in the show rings all over North America If andwhen the amalgamation is completed ill York County the Simcoe County Council will be the largest ill OntarioAQ members Visitors to the County Home at Bee of good farm land well kept garde welcomed by the Governor Dr gracious wife May your visit to Simcoe be pleasant half has not been told Come again WR BENSON Warden of Simcoe County ion with its 250 acres and profitable The CENTENNIM ENTRANCE i0 SthOE counl BUILDINGS IN BARRIE The territory now included in Sim eoe County was possibly the first part of the country west of the early Que bec settlements to be explored by white men By 1800 there were some settlers in the district but not until l831vdid actual settlement take place In the year 1843 by proclamation of the GovernorGenerai Simcoe became mfrmEIILUJLEstahlimdfnewbtrict Engineer Finch ontario Freeldent not Ontario Plowmens Association VSROYSHAAVER ALLiSTON DAQKlNG OT iiiAS oioooool 00oq up Ho 00 Today Simcoe County has an area of 1663 square milcs and 672780 acres of cleared land The estimatedpop ulation in 1950 100500 persons with they farm population estimated at 27 530 There are 6720 occupied farms in the area The county has 263463 miles of highwiys and organized county and townshir roads the highesunileage of roads of any county ill Ontario us and lawns will be McKelvey and his SIMCOE COUNTY PLOWING MATCH COMMITTEE 5th hairmall WILBUR REED Orillia ViceChairman LEONARD RANSOM Tottenllam Secretary McRUER Dept of Ag Alliston Assistant Secretary FRED HUNTER Barrie Treasurcr JACK COLEMAN Barrie Assistant Treasurer LISEMER Alliston COMMITTEE CHAIRME Teams BLYIHE McCONKEY Stroud Tractors CARL STEPHENS Everett Lands HERBERT HUGHES Gilford Billeting WOOD Alliston Parking and Traffic MACKENZIE BEATTIE Mllston Publicity WALLS Barrie County Exhibits if ROY HICKLING Barrie Tented City LEONARD RANSOM Tottenham Banquet and Reception DR McKELVEY Beeton Lunch FISHER GANYION Hillsdal Demonstrations WILBUR REED Oriilia Horse Show MCKELVEY Beeton Historie NORMAN CLARKE Bang Health and SanitaTioii ALBERTGILROY Cookstown HWAY CHAIRMAN Drillia Chairman of Sindee County flowingMilitia