Manure Spreader - Golden, BC
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N 51° 17.511 W 116° 57.647
11U E 502734 N 5682282
At the southern end of downtown Golden, their museum holds an eclectic collection of locally pertinent artefacts.
Waymark Code: WMVK53
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Date Posted: 04/27/2017
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Housed in a relatively small building, the museum houses a collection of artefacts, documents and photographs. They have managed to squeeze an amazing number of interesting displays into the building. They have pictorial and textual displays on the Swiss Guides in Golden, the first Sikh People, Explorer and Cartographer David Thompson, Riverboats on the Columbia River, Red River Carts (with a replica cart), Metis people, Early Settlers and the Stolen church of Windermere. Artefacts include many household items and appliances, gold mining paraphernalia, and, outside, a collection of farm implements.
One of those is this all steel s#@* spreader, made by Massey Harris, likely at their plant in Hamilton, ON. We know that the first Massey spreaders had a wooden box, which makes this a bit newer than the original ones. This one appears to have been built as a horse drawn spreader, though, which would make it anywhere from the 19 teens to the '40s. Haven't found enough information on the steel boxed spreaders to be more accurate on the date than that.
