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Montreal Agricultural Society Minute Book [textual record]

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Date:

1845-1859.

Reference:

R12848-0-5-E, Volume number: 1

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3916152

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Montreal Agricultural Society Minute Book
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Date(s):

1845-1859.

Place of creation:

Québec (Province)

Extent:

4.5 cm of textual records : manuscript with some printed material.

Language of material:

English

Added language of material:

English, French

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The item consists of a bound register with the following title inscribed on the first page: "Minute Book. Agricultural Society for the County of Montreal. From 27th June 1845". It contains around 300 manuscript pages with meeting minutes, accounting records and results of the Society's agricultural competitions. Also inserted in the ledger are 10 printed broadside announcements by the Society and a printed version of the 1845 Act to Encourage Agricultural Societies in Lower Canada. Added to these official records of the Society from 1845 through 1859 are many autograph letters by prominent citizens.

The Society sponsored agricultural competitions for food and feed crops, animals, cheese and butter, and field ploughling with cash prizes. Contest rules and regulations are outlined on the broadside announcements, and the winners of the various classes of each competition, their names and signatures, and the cash prizes won are recorded in the ledger. This ledger offers a rare glimpse into the efforts made to promote agriculture in the Montreal area during the mid-19th Century.

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Montreal Agricultural Society

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Montreal Agricultural Society : Society created in June 1845 to promote good agricultural techniques amonst the County of Montreal population.

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Related material:

Some similar documents exists in the LAC collection, including a minute book for the Ottawa Agricultural Society (1868-1882) in R5038; some registers for the Fitzroy Agricultural Society (1899-1937), the Missisquoi County Agricultural Society (1857-1929) and the Metcalfe Agricultural Society (1889-1907) in MG9-D8 and R3614. Also documentation on the Société d'agriculture de Montmagny (1859-1903) in the Philippe Landry fonds, R9990.

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Private

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2009-00141-9
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