Knee High by the First of July: Celebrating the Legacy of Corn in the District of Kent, British Columbia Knee High by the First of July The Agassiz-Harrison Historical Society
The train has just pulled into the Agassiz station where passengers are eagerly waiting on the platform, 1933. A Harrison Hot Springs taxi is ready to transport passengers […]
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 […]
Corn King Aime Sache in Agassiz Fall Fair parade with driver Les Bennewith, 1951.
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 […]
With the roads washed out by the spring freshet, Agassiz farmers resorted to transporting their milk cannisters to town by row boat, 1948.
Cows swimming across flooded Agassiz fields to higher ground behind a row boat, 1948.
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 […]
Norman Morrow, the 1950 Corn King, ploughing with his champion team of horses during a match, mid-1900s. Norman’s family donated his trophies and horse harnesses to the Agassiz-Harrison […]
Harold Hicks, Master of Ceremonies, 1964 Corn King Lloyd Tranmer, and 1963 Corn King Garet Whorley, 1964.
The Bonnie Doone Dairy Farm in Harrison Mills during the 1948 Fraser River Flood. The Tugboat “Hasty” belonged to Jack Penny, a friend of Bill Duncan.
The Agassiz Fall Fair parade included entertainment by The Corn Huskers Band, 1949-1950.
Farmer using his car to transport milk cannisters to the train station, early 1900s.