Peel 2498 : Davin, Nicholas Flood, Strathcona Horse: Speech by Nicholas Flood Davin at Lansdowne Park, March 7th, A.D. 1900 on the occasion of the first parade of the Strathcona Horse, when a flag from the town of Sudbury was presented by Her Excellency the Countess of Minto (1900)

Author Bio

4481: The rod cultivator . 1919?.: Fairfield, William Harmon (1874-1961.); 1874-1961. Graduate of State Agricultural College in Colorado; taught at University of Wyoming; came to farm at Lethbridge and was soon tackling agricultural problems, 1901; when Mormon settlers could not make alfalfa grow he sent to Wyoming for a bag of soil in which alfalfa had grown in order to inoculate the plants so they could take nitrogen from the air; because of his wizardry the Alberta Railway & Irrigation Co. had him set up a demonstration station, which became the Dominion Experimental Farm; director for many years until retirement in 1945 (Who's who in the Agricultural Institute of Canada; Lethbridge Herald, March 24, 1961).