The 1940s Archives | Knee High by the First of July

Threshing at the Hunt Farm

A threshing team at the Hunt Farm, 1945. Three men work together to operate a McCormick-Deering machine. Barrels are filled and loaded onto a nearby wooden cart to […]

Corn Silage at the McCallum Farm

A group of farmers making corn silage at the McCallum Farm, circa 1930 to 1940. This hard working team set up an assembly line to keep the corn […]

Corn Harvest Time in Agassiz

Madeline Appel, Aime Sache and Jim Cuthbert standing in an Agassiz corn field around harvest time, circa 1930 to 1940. Aime Sache is holding a young calf’s lead. […]

Loaded Milk Cart at the Agassiz CPR Station

Farmers with loaded milk cart and work horse at the Agassiz CPR Station, 1948. The work horse was used to pull the fully loaded carts to meet the […]

“Nothing can stop the FVMPA shippers”

Many cannisters of milk on a rail cart, seven men, and a sign “Nothing can stop the FVMPA shippers” at the Agassiz CPR Station, 1948. Gordon Morrow Jr. […]

Aerial View of East Agassiz during the 1948 Flood

The flooded lands of east Agassiz with a snowy Mount Cheam in the background, 1948. Acres of hop fields were decimated. It took approximately 80 years for the […]

The Salmon Queen during the 1948 Flood

Milk cannisters ready to be shipped on the Salmon Queen, 1948. With the CPR railway washed out, farmers had to find alternative means of transporting their main product to […]

Cows at the Agassiz Ferry Landing

Where the water was too deep to swim across, cows were transported to higher ground by boat. Here cows wait to board a boat at the Agassiz ferry […]

Loading Milk Cannisters onto a Row Boat During the 1948 Flood

With the roads washed out by the spring freshet, Agassiz farmers resorted to transporting their milk cannisters to town by row boat, 1948.

Cow Safety During the 1948 Flood

Cows swimming across flooded Agassiz fields to higher ground behind a row boat, 1948.

Herding Cows During the 1948 Flood

Caring for livestock and making sure that they were safely out of the floodplain was a priority in the spring of 1948. Here a group of farmers herd […]

Tenting during the 1948 Flood

Tents pitched at Mountain View Cemetery, 1948. Families occupied these tents for several weeks during the flood after they were evacuated their homes in May.