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Success Despite Mud
International
Probably the biggest e1t ever planned for
Huron was the International Plowing. Match at Sea -
forth in October, 1966. Occupying several hundred
acres in McKillop with headquarters centred on Scott
Poultry Farm, the match attracted more than 50,000
people despite the fact that rain fell continuously
throughout the week and turned the match site into 'a
a sea of mud.
Plowing Match
Typical of the condition that greeted visitors is
(right) a street in front of the headquarters building
with a car abandoned in the mud..
(Above) The match site from the air is seen as
traffic flowed in from No. 8 highway to the right: Sea -
forth isat the topcentre.of the picture hidden by
trees.
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THE TOWN OF SEAFORTH AND THE HURON EXPOSITOR
ON THEIR 100th BIRTHDAYS
Huron County has a proud history of progress
since the first white settlers arrived through the virgin
forests more than 140 years ago.
It was John Galt, the founder of the Canada
Company, who, in 1827, conceived the Huron Road
which cut across what was to become Huron County,
and on to Lake Huron at Goderich.
The new road encouraged settlement, and
among those first settlers were those who cleared the
area which in, a few years would be the site Gf the Vil-
lages of Harpurhey and Egmondville. In 1868 the Vil-
lage of Seaforth came into being between the older com-
munities.
Seaforth through the years has made a major
contribution to the economy of the county. Its citizens
through their ability and participatioehave on many •
occasions brought renown not only to the town but to
the county as well.
The town — one of five in the county — as it
looks to the future, continues to exhibit that pride and
persistence which were such factors in its establishment
a century ago.
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HURON COUNTY
Calvin
Gordon Boyd
Girvin Reed
Wilmer Hardy
Grant Stirling
Everett Mcllwain
Clifford R. Dunbar
Joseph Hoffman
Lloyd Hendrick
Harold Robinson
Melville Allan
Hugh Flynn
Kenneth Stewart
William J. Elston
Elmer Hayter
Anson McKinley,
James Hayter
Joseph Dietrich
Elgin Thompson
COUNCILLORS 1968
Kratiter, Warden
Alvin D. Smith
Roy Westcott
Roy V. Pattison
Robert W. J. Lyons
James Armstrong
•-• Gordon Lawson
Clarence E...Boyle
Mervyn Cudmore
Herbert B. Such .
Harry Worsell
Carl Dalton
Wilmer J. Cuthill
Joseph Kerr
Jack P. Alexander
Frank McFadden
Borden Cook
Mrs. Minnie Noakes
Leroy Thiel
John G. Berry, ,Clerk-Tteasurer
B. G. flanley, Dep. Clerk -Treasurer
J. W. Britnell, Engineer. A. Alexander, Assessor