Fonds F357 - Sylvester Bros. Manufacturing Company collection

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Sylvester Bros. Manufacturing Company collection

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    CA F357

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    • 1881-1989 (Creation)

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    ca.10 cm of textual records and other material

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    The Sylvester Manufacturing Company of Lindsay, Ontario was founded by Richard Sylvester (1845-1919) in 1882. Born on a farm near Enniskillen, Ontario, Richard worked for Robert McLaughlin (1836-1921) in his carriage and implement business from 1875 until 1882, managing the Enniskillen operation when McLaughlin moved to Oshawa in 1877. Richard’s brother, Robert H. Sylvester (b.1848), became a partner in 1886 and the company’s name became the Sylvester Brothers Manufacturing Company, which was incorporated in 1902. At one time Lindsay’s leading industry, the Sylvester Brothers Manufacturing Company manufactured agricultural implements, including threshers, ploughs, mowers, reapers, hay rakes, seed drills, binders, windmills, boilers, and presses, gasoline engines, as well as railway jiggers. The Sylvester agricultural implement assets were acquired by Tudhope, Anderson & Company of Orillia, Ontario in 1911. After the purchase, the Sylvester brothers continued developing and manufacturing auto-threshers, the first of their kind in Canada.

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    The Sylvester Brothers Manufacturing Company collection contains catalogues of agricultural implements, photographs, articles and newspaper clippings, correspondence, invoices, and a Sylvester Bros. Farmers’ Almanac (1887).

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