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 75th Agassiz Fall Fair and 31st Corn Festival Program, 1979. Held at the Agassiz Fair Grounds on Saturday September 15, 1979, Sponsored by the Agassiz Agricultural and […]
Penned Holstein calves at Peterson Farms, 2018.
Grazing brown hens in front of a shed at Peterson Farms, 2018.
Holstein cows eating in the Peterson Farms barn, 2018.
Agassiz corn field with Mount Cheam in the background, 2018.
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 […]
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 […]