The New Hamburg Manufacturing Company was located in New Hamburg, Ontario. The company was known to manufacture steam traction engines, portable steam engines, and threshers. The company closed in 1917.
In New Holland, Pennsylvania in 1895, Abram Martin Zimmerman (1869-1944) opened a blacksmith shop and began repairing and making farm machinery for the local farmers. Zimmerman also began retailing the Otto four-cycle engine and the Columbus single-cylinder dual-flywheel stationary engine. Around 1900, he started manufacturing his own stationary freeze-proof cylinder engine as well as feed mills and grinders. In 1903, Zimmerman incorporated his business as the New Holland Machine Company. In 1912, the company began manufacturing its own rock crusher and by 1914 it had also added a wood saw to its line of farm machinery. The New Holland Machine Company was purchased by the Sperry Rand Corporation in 1947, to form Sperry New Holland, and began manufacturing the maybine mower conditioner. In 1964, Sperry New Holland bought a major interest in Claeys (Clayson), one of Europe’s largest combine manufacturers. In 1975, Sperry New Holland introduced the world's first twin-rotor combine.
The New Holland brand continued to grow in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. The company manufactured tractors, combine harvesters, balers, forage harvesters, self-propelled sprayers, haying tools, seeding equipment, hobby tractors, utility vehicles and implements, and grape harvesters. In 1986, the farm equipment line of Sperry New Holland was acquired by Ford to form Ford New Holland Inc. Fiat purchased an 80% interest in the company in 1991, and in 1999, New Holland N.V. and Case Corporation merged to form CNH Industrial.
New Theatre, an alternate theatre in Toronto, operated from 1971 to 1982.
Christopher Newton was born June 11, 1936 in Deal, England. He attended university in the U.K. and U.S., graduating from the University of Illinois with an MA (1960). His first professional acting performance was as Cassius in the Canadian Player's tour of Julius Caesar (1961). Throughout the 1960s he appeared in productions in Vancouver, Winnipeg, New York, and at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
The founding Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary in 1968, he formed a small acting company which served as the core performers of the company--these included Neil Munro, Dana Ivey, Pat Armstrong, Eric Donkin, Kenneth Welsh, and William Hutt.
When he moved back to Vancouver as Artistic Director of the Vancouver Playhouse in 1973, he established a core company (as opposed to jobbing actors for each season) as well as an acting school. The Shaw Festival saw what he was doing in Vancouver and courted him to bring the same passion and vision to Niagara-on-the-Lake as Artistic Director. After some considerable persistence, the Shaw Festival got its way in Winter 1979 when Newton finally took the reins of the Shaw Festival. With the assistance of Cameron Porteous as Head of Design and Jeffrey Dallas as Lighting Specialist, who both came with him from Vancouver, they managed to turn the Shaw Festival around. One of Newton's most notable contributions was that "He sought out talent, to be sure, but he passed if the talent showed the slightest hint of arrogance. He insisted the cast participate in all rehearsals and never tried to draw crowds by importing marquee names."1 He encouraged younger actors and playwrights by establishing a philosophy of the ensemble of creators rather than company of actors. In addition to acting and directing, Newton also wrote plays, including Slow Train to St. Ives (Manitoba Theatre Centre, 1966) and The Sound of Distant Thunder (Vancouver Playhouse, 1977).
Between 1980 and 2002 he developed the Festival's international affiliations, created and encouraged its ensemble of creators, and directed such productions as Pygmalion and Candida, even though his initial reaction to joining the Shaw had to do with his dislike of Shaw (Scott, "Newton's Law")! He retired from Shaw after 23 seasons in 2002. After some 30 years as an artistic director, he is widely considered the foremost artistic director that Canada has ever produced. Newton is a member of the Order of Canada and has received numerous awards including the Governor General's Award, the Molson Prize, the Chalmers Award, all the Jubilee Medals, five doctorates (Brock University, University of Guelph, Wilfred Laurier University, University of Toronto and New York - S.U.N.Y.) and two fellowships (Ryerson University and the Royal Conservatory of Music). Newton continued to act and direct on a freelance basis until his passing on December 20, 2021, aged 85.
Sources:
Scott, Alec. "Newton's law: when he joined the Shaw Festival, Christopher Newton pledged to build a troupe where actors--not egos--would be the thing. Twenty-two years later, the outgoing artistic director leaves behind one of the finest ensembles in North America. (Arts)." Toronto Life, vol. 36, no. 12, Aug. 2002, pp. 59+. Gale OneFile: CPI.Q, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A94078783/CPI?u=guel77241&sid=bookmark-CPI&xid=2797f6bb. Accessed 2 Jan. 2024.
In 1932 over 50 milk producers met in Stamford, Ontario, and formed the Niagara Falls Milk Producers Association. Mr. Chris Houck acted as chairman and R.R. Flemming assisted in forming the association. Gordon Mitchell was the first President of the association while, Bill Houck was Vice-President and Roy Brown Secretary-Treasurer. In 1967, after 35 years of existence, the group dissolved and donated its remaining monies to the Niagara Falls Milk Foundation. The last president of the association was Russell Youngblut.
Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia to Raymond and Violette (Loner) Johnston, Marie Annetta Nightingale (1928-2014) was one of Atlantic Canada’s most prolific and well-known culinary writers. She began her career in radio as a women’s commentator on Halifax’s CHNS and CJCH radio stations, as well as Windsor, Nova Scotia’s CFAB Radio. She married Laurie Atherton Nightingale in 1951.
Nightingale ventured into the culinary world when she published Out of Old Nova Scotia Kitchens in 1970, which became the most popular cookbook ever produced in the province. Including both food history and local recipes, Nightingale’s book was one of the first to focus on regional cuisine while also highlighting how the Mi’kmaq and successive waves of French, Loyalist, Black, German, Irish, and Scottish settlers influenced the culinary landscape of the East Coast. The book’s success led to her becoming a celebrated newspaper and magazine food columnist; she was a regular contributor to Halifax’s Chronicle-Herald and Mail-Star and was the founding food editor of Saltscapes magazine.
Nightingale went on to publish three more cookbooks: Marie Nightingale's Favourite Recipes (1993), Out of Nova Scotia Gardens (1997), and Cooking with Friends (2003). In 1998, she received the Edna Staebler Lifetime Achievement Award from Cuisine Canada. She was inducted into the Taste Canada Hall of Fame in 2011, and in 2013, she was presented with a Canadian Food Hero Award from Slow Food Canada.
Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan to an Algonquin mother and an Irish immigrant father.
Pat Noonan was born November 11, 1930. She was raised by her mother who was widowed one year after Pat’s birth. Following high school, she joined the order of the Ursulines of the Chatham Union in 1948. She was involved in the Young Christian Students Union, a movement dedicated to empowering high school students to take faith-based action on social inequalities. Taking the name of Mother Raphael, she remained in the order till 1971. During her time in the order, she obtained her undergraduate degree from Western University and took graduate courses in sociology from Notre Dame. Pat also taught students in Mount Carmel, Parkhill, Chatham, and Calgary.
After she left the order, Pat taught in a high school in Windsor, as well as at St. Clair College. She was regarded as a pioneer in Windsor for women’s rights, was a co-founder of Women’s Liberation in Windsor, and was involved in the Women’s Place, a drop in centre setup in the 1970s offering programs for women. Pat was also involved in Hiatus House, House of Sophrosyne, the Well-Come Centre, and Women for Sobriety.
In 1980, Pat started the Windsor Feminist Theatre, using the arts as a means to raise awareness about women’s issues. Her husband at the time, John McDonald, worked alongside Pat on many of the plays and performances. In addition to WFT, she was also a founding member of many groups and organizations that focused on equity, rights, and justice. From 1991-1997, Pat was appointed to the Board of Governors of the University of Windsor by the Lieutenant Governor in Council.
In addition to her involvement in social issues, Pat was also an advocate for the environment and was a founding member of Windsor on Watch (WOW). This group supported residents in southwest Detroit and the Aamjiwnaang community near Sarnia, to address the environmental issues affecting the communities health.
Pat’s involvement in the community was publicly recognized, being named the first recipient of the Windsor Woman of the Year Award in 1983. In 2015, she received the Activist of the Year award, and her story and impact was documented in the video “This is what a Feminist Sounds Like”, which premiered at the Windsor International Film Festival in 2013, to a sold out audience. Pat died on August 11, 2018, after a quick health decline.
Alan Norton's maternal 3x-great-grandfather, Donald McMillan, first came to Burlington in 1837. The family established a market garden, which was in the family until the 1960's. The Norton family settled first in Tapleytown, Wentworth County, Ontario 1837 and later came to Burlington in 1910.
In 1856 in Ingersoll, Oxford County, Ontario, brothers James and Samuel Noxon opened a foundry under the name of Noxon Brothers to make stoves and ploughs. They were later joined by three other brothers – Stephen, Freeman, and Thomas – and became known for manufacturing Standard seeding and harvesting machines, including mowers, reapers, horse-powered sawing machines, sulky rakes, grain drills, cultivators, field rollers, and feed cutters. The company was incorporated in 1872 as the Noxon Brothers Manufacturing Company Limited, and operated the Noxon Brothers Implement Works, also known as Noxon Brothers Agricultural Works. The Noxon Brothers sold their agricultural implements all over Canada and the world, including in Great Britain, Germany, France, New Zealand, and Australia. Although the office and factory remained in Ingersoll, the company opened branch warehouses in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa, London, and Guelph.
The Noxon family lost control of the company in 1898. By 1914, the company was known as the Noxon Company Limited. After economic downturn during the First World War as well as a devastating fire in 1916 rendering the company unable to fulfill a major deal with Russia to supply agricultural equipment, the Noxon Company formally ceased operations in 1918.