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The BC Farm Museum began with the donation of a famous walking
plow that had been used to win many plowing competitions in British Columbia.
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On 23
May 1953 Bruce Coleman, on behalf of his family, presented his father’s high
cut plow to the University of British Columbia;
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The
late Robert Alfred Coleman had its mould board, share and the angle of its
beam shaped on the anvil of the late Alex Ross of Bruce County, Ontario, in
1900;
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It
was brought to Ladner, British Columbia in 1905 when Mr. Coleman purchased a
farm on East Delta. Two years later he entered and won his first ploughing
match. From that year until 1939 Mr. Coleman and his plough won nine firsts,
seven seconds, five thirds and a fourth prize;
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In
1930 he took top honours at British Columbia’s first provincial ploughing
match;
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