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Plowing Match Prize List, page two of four
1926
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Plowing Match Prize List, page three of four
1926
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Plowing Match Prize List, page four of four
1926
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Haying on Walton Farm
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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"I wanted to farm and my Dad needed help. That was the middle of the depression. There was no incentive to get a job anywhere".

My Dad wanted me to go back to school. This man comes along with a basket and oh, bootlaces and toothpaste and needles and little things to sell. My Dad said 'I'm trying to get this boy to go on to school' and this man said 'what good does it do?' He had some degree in some higher education and he said "this is what I'm doing". I suppose what he was trying to do was just sell enough to get a meal out of it. It was really kind of disheartening. Then, of course, the war came along and that, sad to say, it brightened everything up. Our produce was more valuable.

Well it was too bad and I got mad one time and I hiked off and I was going to go to the war. My Dad come after me and he says he couldn't do anything and he says 'look, stay here and you'll grow food and that's as important as what you'll do anywhere else' ".

-Bill Walton remembers the depression and WWII

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Walton barn raising
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Walton barn raising
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Walton barn raising
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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Walton barn
1921
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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"I had a neighbour and his brother came and worked for me for ten years. He was quiet and we got along pretty well. Then my Aunt came up, my Dad's sister. She helped with meals and taking charge of the house".

-Bill Walton

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Scott Farm
1925
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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"Just northeast of us was the Scott farm. They originally owned two hundred acres, from Ellesmere to Sheppard. There was one son in the family and two daughters. He was left the north hundred, but he didn't seem to want it, and he sold it after a bit. The two girls stayed on at home, and they rented it to somebody as long as they were able. And then of course they eventually passed away". - Bill Walton

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The Scott House
1841
Bendale, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

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The Scott farm house still stands today on Progress Avenue, now the home of The Old Scott House Restaurant. The home was built in 1841 in the Georgian style with stones gathered from George Scott's field. George was born in Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1795. In 1829 he purchased a two hundred acre lot that extended from Ellesmere Road to Sheppard Avenue.