As part of the museum aspect of the mission, the Okanagan Historical Society has gathered together a respectable collection of machines, farm implements, tractors, engines and wagons of yesteryear, a great many of which are 100 years of age or more.
In the southeast corner of the mission grounds is a large collection of farm implements, some under cover, some in the open. This plough is one of two in the collection, toward the rear of the machine shed. This plough has two shares, as opposed to its partner, which has but one. Made by Massey Harris (both ploughs were made in Canada, the other by Oliver), this plough was predated by the other by a couple of decades. One of the obvious advancements made in the time between the manufacture of these two ploughs is in the operator controls. While the Single Bottom Oliver plough required two operators, this one required only one, as the controls have been repositioned to allow operation from the tractor seat.
Perhaps you've seen some old tractors on which the operator's seat seemed to hang well off the back of the tractor. That was to facilitate reaching the controls of tractor drawn implements by the driver/operator. Later, along came hydraulic control and three point hitches, and the tractor seat moved forward.
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