Photo courtesy of Brenda Boswell
Please join us on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 for our Annual General Meeting, via Zoom at 6:30pm. Zoom instructions are listed at the bottom of this post.
At this meeting all paying members will have a chance to vote for this year’s Executive.
The following lists the current board members:
President: Kathie Richards
Past President: Jim Groulx
Vice President: Vacant
Treasurer/Research: Dr. Elaine Becker
Secretary: Laura Centore
Communications and Newsletter: Laura Centore
Membership: Judy Klages
Archives/Architecture: Eleanor Gardhouse
Board Members at Large: Jim Groulx, Don Wilson
Museum Liaison: Karen Houston
We encourage all members to consider serving on our executive. If you would like to serve on the board email the OxHS at info@oxhs.ca. We are accepting nominations until Saturday, February 12, 2022.
Our speaker for tonight will be Brenda Boswell, presenting
Harvest Excursions: Featuring the Story of Gordon Stanley Boswell
This excerpt is from Brenda’s presentation:
‘Between the 1890’s and 1930 thousands of men participated in the fall wheat harvest in Western Canada. Organized by the CPR and local government, call outs were made annually to Eastern Canada, the northern United States and Britain. Tens of thousands of men would converge in Winnipeg over a 2 week period answering the call.
The stories of the Harvest Excursions stories vary between a crusade, an adventure, a binge, hard work, good money, hooliganism and violence. The excursions were a noisy, colourful and important part of Canada’s history, but little was recorded at the time. Gordon Stanley Boswell joined the excursion in 1923 with other members of his Woodstock baseball team Snowy’s Snowbirds. His daughter Brenda Boswell recorded his story for a Canadian history project in 1972 and is proud to share it with the Historical Society.’
Due to Covid-19 restrictions the Oxford Historical Society is currently holding all meetings via Zoom.
For all Zoom meetings use this ID#: 81906248857, no password is required.