Archive Record
Metadata
Item |
Accrual |
Title |
Ord Hop Farm Receipts |
Collection |
Atchelitz Threshermen's Association collection |
Catalog Number |
2017.006.001 |
Year Range from |
1938 |
Year Range to |
1959 |
Scope & Content |
This accural contains around 14000 receipts from the Henry Norton Ord's Fuggle Hop Garden. The receipts are for the Sardis yards, bank stamped in Kamloops. The receipts, in the form of returned paid cheques, provide information on the various payments made by the Ord's Fuggle Hop Garden for things such as farm equiptment, maintenance, supplies, and worker's wages. The worker's wage make up the bulk of the payments and are of particular interest as they provide the names of workers, as well as the labour rates over a number of decades. |
Admin/Biographical History |
Henry Norton Ord (? 1882 - December 20, 1955) was born in Texas. He initially worked in hop yards in the US before coming to the Chilliwack region and forming the Canadian Hops Company with Thomas Livesley and Hugo Lowei around 1926. Their yards were established on the drained lands of Sumas Lake. In the mid-1930s, Ord split from his partners and established the Fuggle Hop Garden yards on the Sumas Prairie and in Kamloops, opting for the drier interior after mildew arrived at the farms in Sardis. After H.N. Ord's death, his wife, Helen Huntington Holladay (1897-1979), took over running the hop yards. She sold the Sumas Prairie yard to the John I. Haas Hop Company in 1959 but continued to run the Kamloops region yards. These ultimately faltered, the longest suriving Ord yards were the Campbell Creek yards, operated by Molson's until 1973. |
Extent of Description |
90 cm textual records, 4 boxes |