Drawing a sample of wheat for grading

Loading grain onto a ship at Thunder Bay

Loading a box car with wheat

Sealing a box car loaded with wheat

Wood and steel boxcars at a terminal elevator, Thunder bay, Ontario

Coopering a box car for wheat loading

Grain traffic at Symington Yard, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Stooking in the Portage Plains area of Manitoba

Binder and tractor

Loading wheat sheaves into a thresher

The binders are followed by the stookers (stooking barley)

The elevator agent checks the grade of a farmer's grain

The elevator agent weighs in a truck with grain on the floor scale inside the elevator. The farmer looks on.

The elevator agent's assistant sets a wheel indicating the bin to which grain will be elevated by the scoop belt visible below the wheel

Elevator agent loading a box car. The handle in his right hand controls the flow of grain into the car. The scale is preset and he watches to see when the set weight is loaded

Threshing outfit in operation

Loading stooks onto a wagon for carriage to the thresher

Combine harvester at work

Emptying a combine into a grain truck

Closing a box car loaded with grain

Swathing with a tractor

Chickens at Windigo, Quebec

Chickens at Windigo, Quebec

Maple sugaring at St. Hilaire

St. Hilaire - sugar parties

St. Hilaire parties

St. Hilaire parties

Maple sugaring at St. Hilaire - habitants

Maple sugar bush at St. Hilaire

St. Hilaire parties

St. Hilaire - sugar parties

Collecting maple sap

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - gathering in glass and aluminum bucket

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - boiling the sap (outdoors)

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - discarded old wooden containers for sap

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - boiling the sap (outdoors and shack)

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - testing the sap at the tree

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - drinking sap at the tree

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - discarded old wooden containers for sap

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - gathering in glass and aluminum bucket

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - gathering sap on snow shoes

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - discarded old wooden containers for sap

St. Scholastique, Quebec - Maple sugar - Ladling boiled syrup

St. Scholastique, Quebec - Maple sugar - Boiling sap

St. Esprit, Quebec - Maple sugar - Straining sap

Quebec - maple sugar party at St. Julienne, Que. - April 1946

Habitant loading from trees

Station of Province of Quebec at Plessisville, April 2, 1940 - drinking sap at the tree