Lambton Musings - Fall 2023

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Celebrating 100 Years: The 1923 International Plowing Match

Dana Thorne, Lambton Heritage Museum

The 1923 International Plowing Match was an important event for Lambton County and plowmen across the province. Headline from October 17, 1923, The Sarnia Canadian Observer (p. 1).

Plowing matches have a long tradition in Ontario. As part of the 1846 Provincial Agricultural Fair of Canada West, plowing matches were held at a farm near Young Street and St. Clair Avenue in present day Toronto.

After the Ontario Plowmen’s Association was formed in 1911, the first International Plowing Match was held in 1913. The International Plowing Match has been an annual tradition ever since, except for interruptions during the First and Second World Wars and in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Lambton County has hosted the International Plowing Match three times: 1923, 1973, and 1991. 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the first year that Lambton County hosted the International Plowing Match. Excitement leading up to the event ran high. Local newspapers including The Sarnia Canadian Observer and The Advertiser-Topic (Petrolia) published many articles and headlines in the weeks leading up to the third week of October.

The event was held at William B. Hillier’s farm just outside of Sarnia. The site at Lot 17, Concession 6 is just west of where Lambton College is now located. Conditions were favourable leading up to the International Plowing Match. The ground was level, public viewing opportunities excellent, and weather conditions favourable. It was estimated that up to 20,000 people attended the match over three days. These visitors were not disappointed. It was reported during the match, “When one arrives at the spacious farm of William Hillier, where the big event is being pulled off, a wonderful sight greets the visitor. Stretching south for nearly a mile are his ample acres, thickly dotted with plowmen, plows, horses, and tractors, and beside each a notable gallery of spectators.”

Although the focus of the event was the plowing competitions, the matches were also an opportunity for businesses to promote their wares. The “Tent City” of exhibitors featured vendors from businesses involved in the agricultural industry food and drink for visitors, and even a Made in Lambton section. The Sarnia Canadian Observer reported on October 17, 1923 about the Lambton display: “Herein is everything from apples to a model house, from a hive of busy bees produced in Lambton to a prefect reproduction of a kitchen that would make any house wife take her husband aside for a few moments and a bathroom that was the admiration of all visitors. Outside there are row after row of every kind of plow imaginable. Tractors are lined up like batteries of howitzers and everywhere there is motion.”

Local press coverage regarding the event was overwhelmingly positive. This headline was published October 19th on The Sarnia Canadian Observer’s front page.

The International Plowing Match took place on William B. Hillier’s farm, highlighted in red on this 1924 map. It was located just west of where Lambton College was later built.

Although billed as an international event with prizes reserved for American plowmen, the showing from Michigan was poor. The Sarnia Canadian Observer reported on October 18, 1923, “But if Ontario plowmen have come forward in large numbers to show their skill, Michigan plowmen have proven a disappointment. At a late hour this morning one solitary lonesome plowman from the great farming state to the south had come to Canada for honours. Unless there are some latecomers he is certain to gain them in considerable numbers and to a considerable value.” Ontario plowman Nicholas Plain noted at the closing banquet, “If the Michigan farmers are going to win our beautiful trophies they will have to do SOME plowing!”

Nicholas Plain of Aamjiwnaang First Nation was Lambton’s champion plowman that year. His track record in the 1920s and 1930s included top honours for Lambton County plowmen in 1921 and 1923 at the International Plowing Match. Plain’s interests also extended beyond the field. He served as Chief of Aamjiwnaang First Nation from 1934 to 1940. In 1951, he wrote several histories about the Annishinaabe. Plain died in December 1960 and is buried at the Aamjiwnaang First Nations Cemetery.

Another participant in the 1923 International Plowing Match was 24 year old Alfred Hillier. He placed second in the two furrow tandem hitch class. He noted, “I got knocked two points for being late getting done.” In spite of that second place disappointment, he did win first prize for best outfit. “They gave me $10 and a set of whiffle trees,” Hillier recollected almost 50 years later.

Continuing a long tradition, the 2023 Lambton County Plowing Match took place September 2, 2023. It was held at the farm of Kevin Forbes on the southwest corner of Waterworks Road and Confederation Line. This is quite close to the site where Lambton County hosted the very successful 1923 International Plowing Match.

Thomas Grace Builders’ Supplies was one of the businesses to join the “Made in Lambton” exhibition. This ad was published in The Sarnia Canadian Observer on October 17, 1923 (p. 6).

Nicholas Plain poses with his champion trophy from the 1921 Lambton County Plowing Match. Image courtesy

Lambton County Archives collection.

October 14 & 15 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

$5 Admission 12 and Under Free

Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Olivia Garva and Kennidie Westbrook, Moore Museum

While touring Moore Museum, you may come across a dressing table in our Victorian cottage. On top are some familiar items: a comb, mirror, book... One thing you may not recognize is a small ceramic dish with a lid, and a hole on top just wide enough for a finger. Not very popular these days, but common to find by one’s bedside in the 18th century was a hair receiver, a small container to store the hair that you collect from your comb or brush.

The hair receiver on display here, donated to the Museum in 1983 by the Hackney family of Mooretown, is ceramic and has the maker’s mark “Hand Painted Nippon”. Hair receivers were commonly made from porcelain, glass, metal and crystal. During the Victorian Era, long hair was extremely popular for females and was the most desirable. 100 strokes by the brush were required daily for a woman and the hair collected by the brush would be placed inside the hair receiver for later use.

Perhaps somewhere in the back of a closet in your home, in a shoe box or tucked in a memory box is a small tuft of hair from your first hair cut or a loved one’s first haircut. Saving hair from the first haircut of a child has become symbolic of a baby growing up and is kept for sentimental reasons. In the Victorian era, it was much more common to save all the hair that has been cut or brushed out by a woman and to use it for daily life. Victorian women rarely cut their hair and it was considered inappropriate for women to wear their hair down in public. The way that Victorian women styled their hair made the difference between being noticed as a respectable, beautiful woman or an undesirable alternative.

It became popular for women to use hair pieces to add volume to a hairstyle, and the hair in the hair receiver was used for this purpose. Hairpieces were quite expensive and were only affordable to the wealthy and the hair receiver allowed women to create the same effect in their own hair without purchasing any pieces. Collected hair was often stuffed in a small bag and sewn shut. This was called a ratt, and using this allowed a woman to say that her hair was her real hair if asked. Ratts are still used today although usually not made of human hair anymore as that would have taken months to collect. Ratts allowed women to keep up with the latest hairstyles and trends in order to be perceived as a put-together lady.

Many state that the collected hair was used for jewellery and art pieces, however, those pieces needed straight hair and not the tangled hair that would have been collected in the brush. Cut hair was most likely used for these pieces. Hair used in jewellery could have been purchased or cut from the head of a loved one, living or deceased. Hair jewellery and art were a way to show your connection to a loved one who passed away but could also show your connection to a living friend, child or spouse. Wreaths from the hair of one person who died were usually objects of mourning while wreaths made from the hair of multiple people, both dead and alive, were more seen as sentimental family trees. These wreaths were made of hair and wire, floral designs with patterns were found in stores and women’s magazines. Wreaths made with hair were displayed in parlors until fashion, design and societal ideas concerning hygiene changed with time and eventually the popularity of hair receivers dwindled in the early 20th century.

Do Curses Sink Sister Ships?

Jesse Vanderveeken, Sombra Museum Summer Curatorial Assistant

The sinking of the R.M.S. Titanic on April 14th, 1912 was a monumental tragedy. The White Star Line intended to make a statement with the largest passenger vessel of her time, but she did not have the desired impact on seafaring history or the reputation of the Olympic class of ocean liners.

The H.M.H.S. Britannic, launched shortly after the Titanic in February of 1914, allegedly dropped its original name, the “Gigantic”, for fear of being associated with the Titanic and its fatal hubris. In November of 1916 when the Britannic, then a hospital ship for the Royal Navy, struck a German naval mine and sank in 55 minutes with a loss of 30 lives despite having reinforced bulkheads, the grim association between them was made regardless. The Titanic had cast a stark shadow over her sister and a misfortune in wartime waters became the fulfilment of a vengeful curse.

Nearly a century later, documentaries like The Curse of the Titanic Sister Ships (2005) capitalise on the mystique of the Titanic tragedy extending to the lives of her troubled sisters. The case of the Titanic exemplifies our obsession with curses. We often depend on supernatural entities, such as curses, to reconcile the chance element of tragedies and the vast unknowns of history, which only grow with time. Though, in some cases, the facts are available and invaluable in helping us progress as societies, sometimes we must conclude that curses do not sink ships. With this premise, I will dissect the circumstances attending the demise of other “jinxed” sister ships closer to home i. Though smaller vessels designed for sailing the Great Lakes, the beauty and prowess of the S.S. Huronic (built in 1901), Hamonic (built in 1909) and Noronic (built in 1913) cannot be overstated. They were among the largest lake-faring passenger vessels of their time; the Noronic even held the title of the “Queen of the Great Lakes” an echo of the “unsinkable” Titanic. Tragically, however, this Queen’s especially disastrous fate would be the final stake in the heart of passenger travel on our inland seas ii .

Minor mishaps punctuate the careers of these three ships, though the real kicker is that the Hamonic and the Noronic were each involved in fatal fires. The “Ham”, while docked at Point Edward on July 17th, 1945, was awoken by a blaze that leaped on her from a dock shed. The “Norey”, docked overnight in Toronto Harbour on September 17th, 1949, was helpless against a mysterious linen closet fire. This frightening coincidence, at face value, will send a superstitious shiver down the back of many readers. However, when examined more closely the story of the Huronic, the Hamonic and the Noronic, becomes one of more gradual decay. If a curse was at work at all, it certainly knew how to take its time.

Once the top of their class for safety, by the time the Hamonic and Noronic burned, they were being held to out-of-date standards. Regrettably, the Noronic still had a manual fire detection system and lacked sprinklers, as well as fire-resistant bulkheads. Several safety regulations passed under the Canadian Shipping Act in the late 1930s had mandated features like these, though due to technicalities in legal definitions, and exemptions which were likely also given to many older ships of its time, the Noronic ended up bypassing all of them iii . The Hamonic also likely struggled to “get with the times” regarding fire safety and like the Noronic her shortcomings were partnered with her well-aged “kindling-dry” wood walls and paneling, long ago ornately carved to give the impression of a luxury hotel on the water iv .

Just like the Olympic, the elder Huronic outlasted its younger sisters. However, additional regulations put in place following the Noronic’s fire caused the Huronic to essentially go down with her, and she was scrapped in 1950.

The lag between new regulations and their implementation on these older steamers preserved an earlier era when fire was all too common and destructive. As our Curator here at Sombra Museum, Kailyn Shepley, noted in a presentation on shipwrecks for the Heritage Sarnia-Lambton Heritage Hour series, any of a multitude of factors, such as sparks from coals or a boiler explosion, allied with strong winds could lead to devastating fires for steam vessels of the early 20th century v. It was also not unheard of to have fires start while ships were in berth, with a dock shed accident sometimes being the catalyst. In fact, foreshadowing the Hamonic’s future accident, in December of 1922 by Fort William, a C. P. R. freight shed, together with five railway cars and their contents were consumed by flames and the docked Huronic just narrowly escaped major damage vi .

A postcard photograph of the Noronic’s interior taken from A deck looking towards the stern of ship and overlooking an observation/dance hall on B deck. The linen closet where the fire started was on C deck.

The case of the Noronic was certainly more catastrophic than the Hamonic with its life toll being around 118, compared to the Hamonic’s single casualty vii. However, this fact can largely be attributed to the fire of the Noronic happening much earlier in the morning (around 2:30 am compared to 8:30 am) and inside the ship, as well as the low amount of crew on board viii . That said, there are certain shared organisational flaws which led to complications in both cases. For example, the standing regulations for fire evacuation, issued by the Canada Steamship Lines, were for when ships were at sea and did not prepare the crew as well for a fire happening while docked ix. Also, as was the case on “lake boats” of the time, passengers were not required to participate in or take much note of fire drills and fire safety on board the ship, instead relying on sometimes ill-founded confidence in the crew’s abilities x .

Following the Noronic’s relentless fire and chaotic rescue attempts several newspapers speculated about the death toll of the passengers and crew, some reported upwards of 200 deaths while some thought around 100. Other papers used the complete survival of the 171 crew as grounds for accusations of cowardice.

Given all we discussed, I will let you, the reader, decide which did the heavy lifting: the curse, or the noted circumstances that naturally enhanced the risk and severity of a fire. We should never forget that priceless lessons await us among the scarce facts of history, lessons that we can use to correct our course after past failures and sail to a better tomorrow.

i 1949.Toronto Daily Star (1900-1971), Sep 19, 47; The Noronic specifically was described as jinxed from the start of its career, because of an incident where it almost keeled over at the beginning of its second season.

ii Taken from Sombra Museum Archives, Hamonic file: “The Hamonic Fire” book chapter, 68.

iii Canada. Department of Transport. Report of Court of Investigation into the circumstances attending the loss of the S.S. Noronic, in Toronto Harbour, Ontario, on September 17, 1949 (Ottawa: Edmond Cloutier, 1949), 6-8; Regulation 38 (1) of section 405 (1) (c) passed in 1939 mandated fire-resistant bulk-heads on all ships but the Noronic got an exemption under regulation 47. Regulation 3 passed in 1937 required ships of “A” class to have an automatic fire detection system when engaged in “international voyages”. The Board of Steamship Investigation ruled that Regulation 3 did not apply to ships engaged on the Great Lakes. Regulation 77.16 of the “General Rules and Regulations for Vessel Inspection”, required automatic sprinklers, as well as an automatic fire detection system, however, the Marine Inspection Office of the United States Coastguard gave the Noronic an exemption provided by section 4400.

iv John Craig, The Noronic Is Burning! (Don Mills, Ontario: General Publishing Co. Limited, 1976), 42.

v “Rough Waters: Shipwrecks of Lambton’s Past.” Heritage Hour, Lambton County Museums, filmed May 11, 2023. Video of lecture, 30:27. https://youtu.be/jPdmp1gPMzE.

vi 8. “Ship of the Month No. 296: Hamonic,” The Scanner, Vol. 34 (May 2002), 14.

vii Craig, 104; 9. The Toronto Marine Historical Society, “Ship of the Month No. 296: Hamonic,” The Scanner, Vol. 34 (Midsummer 2002), 12.

viii Craig, 52, 43.

ix Craig, 46.

x Department of Transport, 13-14, 16.

1951 Polymer Explosion

Lambton County Archives Staff

At 10:40 p.m. on May 6th, an explosion in the highly volatile butadiene extraction unit rocked the community of Bluewater with such force that it shattered windows and even shifted houses on their foundations. Damage in 1951 was estimated at $100,000, which in today’s dollars would be in the millions.

Warning signs for an impending disaster at the Polymer plant went largely ignored in the days leading up to the explosion. For example, gas flares were much larger than normal in the smokestacks. Then, the partly filled butadiene storage drum exploded, sending a shower of flame in the night sky. The explosion in the plant’s extraction unit was heard as far away as Detroit and London. People about 130km away in Bad Axe, Michigan, reportedly saw the flames.

It was through the bravery of an operating crew that additional crisis was averted when they shut down the escaping butadiene that was being released into the atmosphere through a ruptured product line. It is estimated that 9,000 pounds was released into the atmosphere from the rupture before the line was shut down.

To add difficulty, a dense hydrocarbon fog enveloped the area, making it nearly impossible to find where the leak was coming from. The fire crew was called and operations commenced to shut off the six line valves. When the leak was found after shutting down the valves, steam hoses were situated to dispel the gas. While all this occurred, motorists and pedestrians began filling the streets to watch the disaster unfold.

The potential of this disaster showcased the immediate need for a program of education to instruct residents on how to act in such a time. Within three days of the explosion, the Chemical Valley Traffic Control Committee was formed. Later that year, Sarnia formed the Firefighting Mutual Aid Committee. It was this event, and the formation of these two committees, that set the seed for the founding of the Community Awareness Emergency Response (CAER) Organization. It is the first program of this kind in North America. By 1984, the practices put in place by CAER led to the Sarnia-Lambton area being recognized on a global scale for emergency response. Following the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in India because of a chemical emergency, representatives from a multitude of international agencies and companies visited Sarnia to engage with local industry and government leaders in order to benchmark community preparation in the event of a chemical emergency.

It was later noted that the cause for the line rupturing at Polymer was attributed to popcorn which develops when pure butadiene remains dormant in a line for long periods of time, a common risk when working with this material.

Putting the Oil in Snake Oil: The Early History of Patent Medicine

Liam Hurst, Oil Museum of Canada Summer Student

Oil is a substance that improves or makes many of the products we use in our daily lives, from plastics to rubbers to polyester fabrics. Another use in our medicines and medical elements. When the oil industry boom started with the first commercial well in North America dug in 1858, the medical and pharmaceutical industries developed along with it. Today, we use petroleum and petrochemicals derived from oil to make and sell hundreds of medicinal products, including aspirin, acetaminophen, ibuprofen, penicillin, cancer-fighting drugs, and petroleum jelly, which is a key ingredient in Vaseline. Patent medicine, non-prescription medicine, sold to consumers for self-medication, is highly advertised today and a far more common source of medical care than seeing a medical professional.

Some of the earliest recordings of medicine being sold extend back to the early 1700s in England. Back then, medications were created for use by the royal family, which also extended to how they were patented, being declared as “patents of royal favor.” As the 18th century began to reach its end, the idea of medical patents eventually made its way over to America after decades of imported patent medicine from England. The first American medical patent was given to ‘Dr. Lee’s Windham Bilious Pills’ in 1796. Heading into the 19th century, the selling of patent medication continued to gain influence, as seeing a physician was both an expensive and fearful endeavour due to some of their methods of care. Many advertisers of medical products took advantage of the situation making these types of advertisements commonplace.

Around the mid-1800s, salesmen would begin doing travelling medicine shows, which were sales pitches held in a town square or on the back of a horse-drawn wagon and were often presented in the form of a song or a skit to keep watchers entertained and interested in buying their product. Salesmen also started using trade cards as advertisements around this time. An innovation in advertising, trade cards were easily produced, distributed, and not restricted in what products could be sold, leading to more product variety, and would often be designed to fit the usual contemporary tastes of consumers at the time. Trade cards would also pioneer many aspects of advertising we still use today, such as slogans, brand appeal, and positive reinforcement, like showing happy people.

 Oil Museum of Canada artifact, Healy & Bigelow’s Kickapoo Indian Oil. Healy & Bigelow and other similar companies sold their products at popular travelling medicine shows around North America. Healy & Bigelow’s products had wild cure-all claims and exploited First Nations stereotypes and imagery for the sake of profit.

An Advertisement for Dr. Lee’s Windham Bilious Pills (1797), from the Connecticut Journal.

Not every product was legitimate, however, and due to the unregulated nature of these early advertising methods, it became much easier to advertise and sell these illegitimate products, which were referred to as “quack medicine” or “snake oil”. This term came from a popular, illegitimate medical product from the time known as ‘Clark Stanley’s Snake Oil Lineament,’ which was proven to be illegitimate itself in 1916. ‘Snake oil’ products were typically not only ineffective but also potentially harmful. Sometimes they contained alcohol, morphine, and even cocaine.

As time marched on into the 20th century, these early advertising methods fell out of favour. Newspapers, magazines, and billboards gained the spotlight from manufacturers, as well as the invention of the radio (1913) and television (1927). This continued when the first TV commercial aired in 1941. Many trade cards have been preserved and can be found in archives, museums, and special collection libraries. The early history of patent medicine is a very turbulent period of many innovations and many dangers, but the impact the early years of the advertising industry had is undeniable. Many of the practices used today, both in its advertising, as well as the medical field, were brought into the limelight all those years ago.

Trade Card Advertising Ayer’s Cathartic Pills, from Ayers cathartic pills (artstor.org)

Amassing a Land Holding in Plympton Township

Alan Campbell, Lambton County Branch of the Ontario Genealogical Society

[Ontario Ancestors]

lambtonnewsletter@ogs.on.ca

A request to check into land records for George Hyde, a Plympton Township settler, led to my extensive research of his family. In the process of satisfying the research request, I discovered that Lambton County Branch did not have a family history for him. I decided to continue my research to build that family history. Part of that family history deals with his ownership of land in Plympton Township. The Township Papers, which predate the Crown grant which initiates the recording of subsequent transactions concerning a given property, are quite interesting.

Map of George Hyde Holdings 1880 (Lambton County Archives)

Since George had served with the Royal Navy for 28 years, spending some of that time in Upper Canada during the War of 1812, he was eligible for a land grant. How much I did not realize until I found the record of his purchases among the Township Papers which preceded his receipt of the crown patents. Peter Robinson recorded George’s land purchases at public auction in Chatham:

Lot 19, Front concession, Plympton Township, 100 acres [50£]

Lot 20, Front concession, Plympton Township, 100 acres [50£]

Lot 21, Front concession, Plympton Township, 100 acres [50£]

East ½ Lot 7, Concession 10, Plympton Township, 100 acres [50£]

West ½ Lot 8, Concession 10, Plympton Township, 62 acres [31£]

Lot 10, on the north and south side of Victoria Street, Town of Errol [5£ each]

Lot 19 was short 20 acres so the total price for the 442 acres was reduced by 10£ to a total of 231£

According to a memorandum from the Admiralty Office dated 3 March 1832, a Lieutenant of the Royal Navy with 20 years standing and upwards was to receive a remission of purchase money in the amount of 200£, a respectable reward for said service.

What did George do with his 442 acres of land? George received the grant for Lot 19, Front concession on 9 March 1839. The 1861 agricultural census for Plympton Township recorded that he was farming 80 acres because of the 20 acres Lot 19 was missing. At that time, he had 30 acres under cultivation and 15 under crops such as spring wheat, peas, oats, Indian corn, potatoes and turnips [crops recorded as grown in 1860]. He held this land until his death, 2 November 1868, and it passed via his estate to Thomas F. Hyde, his son, who sold it 4 April 1870 to Alfred J. Gurd. By the time of the 1881 Canada Census, Thomas was in Manitoba.

George Hyde Lot Purchases in Plympton Township

George received the grant for Lot 20, Front concession 9 March 1839 as well but had already sold it to John Hyde 23 June 1838 before he officially received the Crown grant. In a similar fashion he received the grant for Lot 21, Front concession 9 March 1839 but had sold the south half [50 acres] of it to John Sooney 23 June 1838. The north half [50 acres] of Lot 21 was sold to John Cronin 23 June 1838.

As for Lot 10, north side of Victoria Street, Village of Errol, George received the Crown grant for it 9 March 1839 and sold to Hugh Arthur Hyde 7 March 1854. Lot 10, south side of Victoria Street was sold to Mary C. Maloney 10 April 1867. George had received the Crown grant for it 9 March 1839 as well.

George sold Lot 18, Front concession, Plympton Township to David Schram for one thousand two hundred dollars [$1,200] 4 May 1866. It was David who received the Crown Grant so there is no reference to George’s ownership of this lot in the abstract index of land records for the front concession. This lot was not included on the record of land purchases in 1833 either. According to documents related to this lot found in the Township Papers a George Filliter requested 19 September 1833 that land agent Henry Jones put the lot up for sale as he wished to become an “...immediate & actual settler.”

There was no additional information that suggested George as successful in his request. Prior to 1 April 1835, a Rev. Quentin Hume and a Rev. Scott attempted to lease or buy the property. Their request appeared to be ignored and a follow up letter from the local land agent Henry Jones indicated that it was suggested a William Blake of Adelaide (a relative of Rev. Hume), apply but again nothing appeared to happen. Henry makes mention of a gentleman on the land making improvements but does not give his name. We are left to wonder if the improvements were being made by George. There are no further documents to indicate what happened to Rev. Hume’s request, but Lot 18 passed into George Hyde’s hands.

Without access to the Township Papers, this interesting pre-Crown Grant history of land purchases and sales would not be available.

George Hyde Certification of Residence

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