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Barbed wire1920
Islands Museum, Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Steer owned by the Melanson family at their farm 'around the cove'1940
Freeport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Elias Sollows1996
Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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In the early years of the 1900s and indeed through to the 1940s, transportation via roads and with trucks was limited. To purchase cattle or oxen from somewhere within the county, the purchaser would have to sail or walk to their destination and then return home. Elias Sollows of Tiverton, born in 1907, told the story of how his father walked to Plymton, 50 miles distant to buy a pair of oxen. He then walked the oxen home to his barn.31
Boyd Outhouse2001
Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Butchering cattle was a problem. Although Austin Westcott and others butchered individual cattle for families, if a large number of cattle were sold to people from "away", the cattle would have to be walked or "driven" to Digby. Boyd Outhouse remembers driving a herd to Digby in the 1930s, a distance of approximately 40 miles.Boyd, along with Vincent Howard would make the trip for $7.00 to share between them, in the 1940s. Staying overnight on Digby Neck, they would go to bed around 1 a.m. and then rise at 4 a.m. to feed the cattle and get on the road again. Walking on the gravel roads, they would fill their pockets with rocks and use them to manage the herd's journey.
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A hennery owned by Roy Small1925
Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Ernest Outhouse , shown at the VanTassell farm with a small pig1930
Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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A double yoke1950
Islands Museum, Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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A single ox yoke1930
Islands Museum, Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Road repair work1920
Central Grove, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Earl Outhouse with his ox. Notice the plow on the back of the cart.1920
Central Grove, Nova Scotia, Canada
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George Morrell with his team of oxen, haying.1940
Westport, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Team of oxen owned by Douglas Cann, Tiverton.1970
Tiverton, Nova Scotia, Canada
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