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Plowing A Furrow To Victory
3. Accomplishments of Harris Brown
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serv.focus(); } //--> </script> </head> <body leftmargin="0" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <div id="stChild"> <div class="sc" id="sc1"> <h4 class="float-left">1</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Main Hall, Beachburg Exhibition Hall built by Brown, Harris S. in 1931. <br />1957<br /> Beachburg Exhibition Park, Ontario, Canada<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#1" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=127022','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=800,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADYD/0001/image/storycard/ADYD0001002f.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc2"> <h4 class="float-right">2</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Following in his father's footsteps, Harris Brown served a five year term as president of the North Renfrew Agricultural Society.<br /> During his second year of presidency, a fire swept through the Exhibition Park destroying most of the buildings including the Main Hall built by his grandfather Augustus.<br /> Harris, a few days after the fire, together with the board of directors and interested people, began a building campaign to build a new Main Hall on the site of the old. Harris supervised the construction and diligently assisted as a a carpenter. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc3"> <h4 class="float-left">3</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> Brown, Harris S. on the day of his 50th wedding anniversary .<br />June, 1958<br /> Westmeath Township, Ontario, Canada<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#3" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=127023','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=583,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADYD/0001/image/storycard/ADYD00010030.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc4"> <h4 class="float-right">4</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Harris was a talented carpenter who worked at Barr's Sash and Door Shop in Beachburg after he retired from the farm.<br /> He was an avid gardener tending a large vegetable garden and maintaining beautiful flower gardens surrounding the house.<br /> Harris was instrumental in bringing the telelphone to the area and in 1911, the first rural telephone was installed at the Brown farm. In 1938 he became the first subscriber in the neighbourhood for installation of hydro power to the farm. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc5"> <h4 class="float-left">5</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> This is the Fleury Scotch Thistle Plow.<br />1880<br /> Ross Museum, Foresters Falls, Ontario, Canada<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#5" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=126976','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=695,height=548')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADYD/0001/image/storycard/ADYD00010001.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc6"> <h4 class="float-right">6</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> The highlight of Harris's life was his trip to Ottawa to the1900 plowing match at age twenty-two.<br /> His plow was the Fleury # 53 "Scotch Thistle" walking plow shown in this picture, now an artifact in the Ross Museum, Foresters Falls, Ontario. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc7"> <h4 class="float-left">7</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> The team was driven by Harris Brown to get the plow on the train along with his horses.<br />2003<br /> Westmeath Township, Ontario, Canada<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#7" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=127025','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=695,height=548')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADYD/0001/image/storycard/ADYD00010032.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc8"> <h4 class="float-right">8</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> The following photos are a re-enactment at the Keith and Ruby Bennett farm, near Beachburg of Harris's trip with the plow to the station. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc9"> <h4 class="float-left">9</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> On the way to the train station.<br />2003<br /> Westmeath Township, Ontario, Canada<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#9" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=127026','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=695,height=548')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADYD/0001/image/storycard/ADYD00010033.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc10"> <h4 class="float-right">10</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> The prize for the winner of the 1896 ploughing match held at the Augustus Brown farm was a trip to the provincial plowing match, October 1900 at the farm of J.R.Booth, next to the Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.<br /> <br /> This match was organized by the Ottawa Valley Journal and was the championship competition for eleven surrounding counties. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc11"> <h4 class="float-left">11</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> At the station, Harris loaded his plow and horses on the train.<br />1900<br /> Westmeath Township, Ontario, Canada<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#11" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=127027','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=800,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADYD/0001/image/storycard/ADYD00010034.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc12"> <h4 class="float-right">12</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> Harris's son Vernard remembers hearing the story of how his Dad took the horses and plough to Ottawa by rail. </span> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc13"> <h4 class="float-left">13</h4> <span class="cmStoryLine"> The steam engine roars into the station.<br />1900<br /> Westmeath Township<br /> </span> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> </span> <br /> <br /> <a href="#13" onClick="window.open('pm_v2.php?id=display_original&lg=English&fl=0&rd=127028','CM', 'toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,copyhistory=no,width=800,height=600')"><span class="topNavWhite"><img src="CommunityMemories2/ADYD/0001/image/storycard/ADYD00010035.jpg" ></span></a> </div> <div class="sc" id="sc14"> <h4 class="float-right">14</h4> <span class="cmStoryLineText"> The horses and plough were loaded into the boxcar for the trip to Ottawa by steam train. </span> </div> <table id="scNav"><tr> <td width="172" style="text-align:left;"><a href="pm_v2.php?id=story_line_child&fl=&lg=English&ex=00000523&sl=4019&pos=1&scpos=1" id="scJumpFirst" class="scLink"><img src="English/CommunityMemories2/cm_images/sc_start.gif" width="10" height="9" /></a></td> <td width="170" style="text-align:right;"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="flip(this.id, 0, 1, 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