The history of tobacco in Delhi, Ontario17 chapters · 46 sources · every figure citedPlan a visit to the Delhi Tobacco Museum
Snapshots of tobacco farming, kept with a postcard of Tillsonburg. Albums like this are how history survives.
Share your storyPhotos, letters, memories, corrections

Every family in the belt has one Share your story

The archives hold the records. The families hold the rest. If you grew, primed, tied, cured, bought or sold tobacco around Delhi, or grew up with someone who did, we’d love to hear from you.

01A memoryHarvest summers, the auction, the hall, the farm. Long or short.Write it down →02A photo or documentPhotos, letters, sale slips, hall programmes, newspaper clippings.Send a scan →03A correctionSomething we got wrong, or a source we should know about.Tell us →
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Photos wantedThe Delhi auction exchangeSale days, the clock, buyers and growers on the floor, in any decade.Share yours →Photos wantedThe research stationThe federal tobacco station west of town, its fields, kilns and staff.Share yours →Photos wantedThe hallsHungarian, Belgian, German, Lithuanian and others: openings, dances, weddings, programmes.Share yours →Photos wantedDowntown DelhiMain Street in the tobacco years: shops, signs, parades and harvest crowds.Share yours →Photos wantedThe harvest crewsPrimers, tiers, boat drivers and kiln crews, at work or at rest.Share yours →Photos wantedKilns, then and nowYour farm’s kilns and barns. We never publish an address without permission.Share yours →
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What are you sharing?
Only to reply to you. Never published.
Names, places, years: whatever you remember. It doesn’t need to be polished.
Photos or scans
How you’d like to be credited if we use it.
How we handle what you send: privacy notice.
Thank you

It’s with the editor now, who will reply by email. Nothing is published without your permission.