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Loaded Milk Cart at the Agassiz CPR Station

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”

“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. […]
Agassiz Milk Stand

Agassiz Milk Stand

A boy sits with cannisters of milk on an Agassiz farm milk stand, mid-1900s. The milk stands were placed by the road at the end of the driveway […]
The Salmon Queen during the 1948 Flood

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 […]