Heritage Farm Show

The Tyrconnell Heritage Society celebrated the proud history of our agricultural beginnings with its annual Heritage Farm Show on Labour Day Weekend. Demonstrations included a steam engine, milk separating, threshing, baling, buzz sawing and working farm horses plowing and harrowing. There were wagon rides and a barrel train, BBQ and a bean pot, local produce for sale, banjo tunes, and singing and spoon playing. Sunday service followed the pancake breakfast and each day's events were wrapped up with a candy scavenger hunt in the straw for kids before the baler started to tidy things up.

It takes a lot of man hours and dedication to run this event and the weekend would never happen without the generosity of local businesses that sponsor some of our participants as well as numerous volunteers, Tyrconnell Heritage Society members and presenters who come for the entire weekend simply out of a love for agriculture and heritage machinery.

This year's show was a great success and everyone is looking forward to next year's!

Join us on Labour Day weekend 2009 and discover what's new in antique machinery at the annual Heritage Farm Show on the grounds of the Backus-Page House on the Lake Erie shoreline.