150 years ago
June 1, 1876
The unvarying Condition on which each one of the following Horses stands is, that all casualities to Mares are at the sole risk of their owners.
SIR COLIN – This well-known imported pure bred Clydesdale will stand during the season / THE VETO – This splendid young Morgan horse … is the winner of five prizes / DERBY – The above imported Coaching Horse will stand / Young Suffolk Punch / THE SOCIETY’S HORSE “TRUE BLUE” stands at the Society Stables / The well-known Horses … will stand during the season as follows – SIR WALTER SCOTT … PRINCE ROYAL … YOUNG CONQUEROR / THE EMPEROR – This beautiful Stallion is four years old, stands 16 hands high, weighs 1400 lbs, and is of a brown color / THE BLACK BOY – This Horse is 6 years old, stands 15 hands, weighs 1100 lbs, and is coal-black in color. He is the purest Canadian blood in the county. / YOUNG SPLENDOR is rising 4 years old, stands 16 1/4 hands high, and weighs 1460 lbs.
125 years ago
June 6, 1901
ORMSTOWN: The plastering of St Paul’s is finished and Mr Crawford has now a large force at work completing the carpenter work.
100 years ago
June 10, 1926
1342 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK ON EXHIBIT AT ORMSTOWN SHOW
ELECTRIC LIGHTS GO OFF THROUGH FOUL PLAY – Horse Chain Found Welded to Dunn Hydro System Electric Wires Along Shearer Side-road.
75 years ago
June 13, 1951
Livestock Show at Ormstown One of the Best in Years – Splendid Exhibits in All Classes and Groups of Animals
HELPFUL – Husband (preparing breakfast)– “Afraid it’s rather overdone, dear, so when you are serving it remember those bits quite black are bacon and those that are not quite are eggs.”
50 years ago
June 9, 1976
EVERY YEAR – it seems – more and more people from outside the Chateauguay Valley come to Ormstown Exhibition. They come from Ottawa, Toronto, Montreal as well as from as far away as the Maritimes. A great many also come from south of the border such as Malone, Plattsburg, Fort Covington, Chateaugay and Massena as well as from distant places downstate. For all of that, it’s still a great place to run across your next door neighbor.