Artifact Spotlight

The Artifact Spotlight page provides brief stories for a selection of artifacts from the Canada Agriculture Museum collection.

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Store Sign

2006.0045

Hardware stores that served farming communities had to carry anything that the rural community might need. Mortson’s could supply everything from Massey-Harris farm tractors to Beatty washing machines and Kelvinator refrigerators. Manufacturers contracted with hardware stores to act as their sales agent for a particular geographic area of a province.

Artifact Spotlight archives:

• Electromagnetic Detector
• City Express Delivery Wagon
• Insecticide Duster
• Industrial Jam Kettle
• Model Chicken Coop
• Wine Rack
• Quebec Honey Tin
• Manure Spreader
• Walking Plough