Caption
With employment in Canada at the highest level in history, manpower to harvest the "green gold" presents a problem. Tobacco is planted by machine, cultivated by machine but it must be harvested by hand, one leaf at a time, when that leaf is ripe. Primers, who work 6 to a team filling horse-drawn "boats", are paid $14 a day (plus board) during the frenzied 6-week harvest of what has been described as one of the richest but "chanciest" crops in Canada.
Release Date
February 23, 1960
Materials
Typescript with illustrations
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Caption
Tobacco is one of Ontario's most profitable agricultural products and the 1959 crop presently being marketed is expected to bring in an estimated $85 million. While last summer's production was slightly down from the 1958 all-lime high of 176 million pounds of flue-cured tobacco, higher prices for what is considered to be the "finest quality crop" ever harvested is expected to compensate for loss due to acreage reduction, hail and early frosts. Above, buyers at the Ontario Flue-Cured Growers Marketing Warehouse at Tillsonburg, Ontario.
Date
December 1, 1957
Accession Number
LAC-NFB84330
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176713
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Today's farmers include many of Dutch, Belgian, Hungarian, German and Polish descent. Nimble-fingered women tie the leaves for the kiln. After that the success of the crop is in the hands of the "cure-man". He must keep a fire going, raising the temperature gradually, for 5-6 days. A mistake on his part could be costly.
Date
August 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB89707
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177135
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Today's farmers include many of Dutch, Belgian, Hungarian, German and Polish descent. Nimble-fingered women tie the leaves for the kiln. After that the success of the crop is in the hands of the "cure-man". He must keep a fire going, raising the temperature gradually, for 5-6 days. A mistake on his part could be costly. Many of the "cure-men", such as the one shown above, come up from the American south.
Date
August 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB89692
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177133
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Today's farmers include many of Dutch, Belgian, Hungarian, German and Polish descent. Nimble-fingered women tie the leaves for the kiln. After that the success of the crop is in the hands of the "cure-man". He must keep a fire going, raising the temperature gradually, for 5-6 days. A mistake on his part could be costly.
Date
August 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB90244
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177180
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Today's farmers include many of Dutch, Belgian, Hungarian, German and Polish descent. Nimble-fingered women tie the leaves for the kiln. After that the success of the crop is in the hands of the "cure-man". He must keep a fire going, raising the temperature gradually, for 5-6 days. A mistake on his part could be costly.
Date
August 1, 1959
Accession Number
LAC-NFB89676
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011177132
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Caption
Today the Dutch Clock system of auction has replaced the old-time method of "barn buying". The face of the clock is graduated to price intervals and has a large sweep hand. Numbered rounds of glass which stud the centre of the face are controlled by push button lights from the buyers' desks. The Dutch Clock auctioneer starts well above the market price and comes down in quarter cent drops.
Date
December 1, 1957
Accession Number
LAC-NFB84325
Materials
Black and white negative
Photographer
Enumber
e011176712
Collection
National Film Board of Canada
Credit Line
Library and Archives Canada, Mikan no. 205928
Photostory #250: $85 Million in "Green Gold"
Photographers
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Maker
National Film Board of Canada
Release Date
February 23, 1960
Collection
CMCP fonds
Credit Line
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography fonds, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives
Main Text
With employment in Canada at the highest level in history, manpower to harvest the "green gold" presents a problem. Tobacco is planted by machine, cultivated by machine but it must be harvested by hand, one leaf at a time, when that leaf is ripe. Primers, who work 6 to a team filling horse-drawn "boats", are paid $14 a day (plus board) during the frenzied 6-week harvest of what has been described as one of the richest but "chanciest" crops in Canada.
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