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P6524

ID Number: P6524
Item Name: Image
Title: Trucking Sugar Beets / Transport des betteraves sucrières
Title (Fre): Transport des betteraves sucrières
Date: ca 1940
Description: Black and white photograph of a truck carrying sugar beets from the Comber weigh station to a Chatham factory; the truck is piled high with beets and is stopped beside a beet field; there are barns and other buildings visible in the background.
History: In 1944, two of Canada's five beet sugar factories were operated by the Canadian and Dominion Sugar Company Ltd. at Chatham and Wallaceburg in Kent County. Favourable natural conditions (limey soils and dry autumns) combined with the distance of this part of southwestern Ontario from the nearest Canadian cane refineries at Montreal favoured the industry. The bulk of the best crop was shipped to the factories by truck or wagon, with the remainder being sent by rail.
Place made: Canada - Ontario - Essex County
Collection Name: Museum Windsor

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Agricultural facilities / Installations agricoles

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