Every figure, cited Where it all comes from
Every source this site uses, sorted by how much weight it can carry. Each one links out, and shows the chapters that cite it.
AInstitutional & primary
Government records, archives, legislation, film and newspapers of the day.
- S1
Walker, E. K. Delhi Research Station, 1933–1983. Agriculture Canada, Historical Series No. 17, 1983.
Library and Archives Canada (web edition)
- S2
Agriculture Canada. A History of the Research Station, Harrow, Ontario, 1909–1974.
Library and Archives Canada (web edition)
- S4
Agriculture Canada. Delhi Research Station profile, 1973.
Government of Canada Publications
- S5
Multicultural History Society of Ontario. Delhi Tobacco Project series (oral histories, 1977–88).
MHSO Archive
- S6
Norfolk Heritage & Culture. Hours & locations; Permanent exhibits.
Norfolk County
- S10
- S11
- S12
Legislative Assembly of Ontario. Hansard, 10 November 1988.
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- S13
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat. Supplementary Estimates (C) 2008–09, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada.
Treasury Board Secretariat
- S14
Office of the Auditor General of Canada. “Improvements made in some support programs but problems remain,” news release, November 2011.
Government of Canada
- S15
- S16
- S20
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. The Innovators: Rooted in Science, 2013.
Library and Archives Canada
- S21
- S22
- S25
- S26
- S28
- S31
Macartney-Filgate, Terence, dir. The Back-Breaking Leaf. National Film Board of Canada, 1959. 29 min.
NFB
- S32
Toronto Star photograph, 3 August 1966: “Fire helps tobacco workers combat nightly chill at Delhi’s camp misery.” TSPA_0011513F.
Toronto Star Archives / Toronto Public Library
- S33
Norfolk Heritage & Culture. Delhi Early Settlement Self-Guided Walking Tour.
Norfolk County
- S34
Port Perry Star, 28 July 1987, p. 5: John B. McClelland, “When tobacco was king.”
Our Ontario (digitized newspapers)
- S35
Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville), 8 September 1955, p. 5: “Room for 300 more tobacco farms.”
Clarington digitized newspapers
- S37
- S39
Delhi News-Record, 25 October 1956, p. 1: Tobacco Queen crowning photograph and caption (photo by Mesaros), and the report on the Tobacco Festival. Read from photographs of the original paper shared by Dave Rusnak Sr. in local Facebook groups, 29 December 2022; to be checked against the Norfolk County digital newspaper archive.
<em>Delhi News-Record</em> (photographs of the original page)
- S48
Toronto Star photograph, 28 October 1974: “Miss Canada is speechless!” 22-year-old Terry Lynne Meyer of Edmonton on her selection as Miss Canada “last night.” TSPA_0020188F.
Toronto Star Archives / Toronto Public Library
BScholarly
Peer-reviewed history and geography.
- S3
McQuarrie, Jonathan. “‘Tobacco has Blossomed like the Rose in the Desert’: Technology, Trees, and Tobacco in the Norfolk Sand Plain, c. 1920–1940.” Journal of the Canadian Historical Association 25, no. 1 (2014).
Érudit
- S17
Ramsey, D., and B. Smit. “Impacts of changes in the flue-cured tobacco sector on farmers in Ontario, Canada.” Applied Geography 21, no. 4 (2001).
ScienceDirect (abstract)
- S18
Reid-Musson, Emily. “Historicizing precarity: A labour geography of ‘transient’ migrant workers in Ontario tobacco.” Geoforum 56 (2014).
ScienceDirect
- S19
Bridi, R. M. “Migrant Workers in Ontario’s Tobacco Belt.” Human Geography 8, no. 1 (2015).
SAGE Journals
- S38
Farmtario. “Federal government announces tobacco transition program,” 1 August 2008.
Farmtario
- S42
Delhi Tobacco Museum & Heritage Centre and Progressive Realty Group. Building History, Ep. 13: “The Calvin Presbyterian Church” (video), Facebook.
Delhi Tobacco Museum & Heritage Centre
- S43
Better Farming. “Delhi research station chopped in federal budget cutbacks,” 14 April 2012.
Better Farming
- S44
Mann, Susan. “Can federal research farm be reborn as a water research facility?” Better Farming, 15 August 2012.
Better Farming
- S45
Mann, Susan. “Study looks at future uses for Delhi research station.” Better Farming, 10 April 2013.
Better Farming
- S46
Norfolk County (Norfolk Business). “Norfolk leading farming region,” summarizing Statistics Canada’s 2016 Census of Agriculture.
Norfolk County
CCommunity histories
Written by the halls, clubs and communities themselves. Attributed in the text.
- S8
- S9
Delhi Belgian Club. History; “Belgian Hall origins date back to drama club.”
Delhi Belgian Club
- S23
- S24
- S29
Lithuanian Canadian Community (KLB). Delhi–Tillsonburg community history.
Lithuanian Canadian Community
- S30
National Film Board of Canada. “Inside Ontario’s Tobacco Harvest in the Late Fifties,” NFB Blog, 19 August 2016, with reader comments.
NFB Blog
- S47
Dan Wiest Around The Community. Facebook post, 27 July 2021, with Norfolk County Heritage & Culture and the Delhi Tobacco Museum & Heritage Centre: “a throwback to when tobacco had ‘Queens’”. Reproduces the undated clipping “New Harvest Festival Queen Crowned” (Telegraph photo by Gord Lawrence), a Delhi News-Record page “Ontario Tobacco Queen contestants 1988,” and display cards for the Ontario Tobacco Queens of 1983–84, 1991–92 and 1997–98.
Dan Wiest Around The Community (Facebook)
- S49
North American Reciprocal Museum Association. Member listing: Delhi Tobacco Museum & Heritage Centre.
NARM (museum's own listing)
DLeads only
Local articles and general web pages. Never the only source for a fact.
- S7
Norfolk Farms News. “Tobacco Culture and Delhi’s History intertwine at Delhi Tobacco Museum & Heritage Centre,” updated 10 May 2023.
Norfolk Farms News
- S36
Wikipedia, “Delhi, Ontario”; Small Town Canada, “History of Delhi.”
Web
The research dossier’s S27 was the web edition of S1, so the two are merged. Sources marked “link being replaced” or “claim not found” are not used for any figure until they are fixed.