Saw, Hand
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| Nom de l'objet : | Saw, Hand |
| Matériaux : | metal, wood |
| Numéro d'accession : | BE2009.1.192 |
| Pays d'origine : | North America |
| Date de début de production : | 1900 |
| Date de fin de production : | 1940 |
| Description : | An iron hand saw with a wooden handle and a blade that is flat and narrows towards the end. The bottom of the blade has teeth. The end of the blade is chipped. The curved wooden handle sits on one corner of the blade with three screws. |
| Fonctions : | Saw most likely used on the Harris farm. When James Beveridge Harris bought the property in 1837 more than half of the cleared land was used for growing grains with a small percent used for garden crops and apple orchards. By the 1900s, most of the land was used for apple orchards and a change started to occur between subsistence farming to commercial crop farming. Along with apples and strawberries, Arthur Harris (who inherited the farm in 1884) also kept dairy cattle, chicken, geese and peacocks on his farm. Arthur Beveridge Harris (1843-1932) was the only surviving son of Elizabeth (n‚e Molony) (1829-1884) and Captain James Beveridge Harris (1797-1884). He later married Mary Magrath (1859-1954) and they had three children, Annie (1882-1986), Naomi (1883-1968), and Margaret (1887) who died shortly after birth. Arthur helped his father with the daily tasks of maintaining a farm. He inherited Benares in 1884, upon the death of his father, Captain Harris. In the same decade, both Arthur and Mary received a number of inheritances that made life easier at Benares. |
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| Ville de l'établissement : | Mississauga |
| Province de l'établissement : | Ontario |
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