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While family members factories were here, like
can’t quite agree on the Baxter’s Canning and
date, it is almost 100 years Waupoos. We were
since John’s father moved quite a large grower for
to County Road 34 to start them, but then they all
the home farm which is moved away.”
now the Picton location In 1984, they started
for his business. growing more corn and
“My father moved out soy beans and became
to home farm I think in cash crop farmers. They
1921, so we are probably put up a grain elevator
100 years this year, although some people and started a grain elevator business.
say it was 1922,” laughs John. “My dad John recalls, “It was when the factories
always said it was ’21,” and goes on to left, we branched out into the grain busi-
share a little of the history, describing how ness to keep our trucks busy. Then we
his parents originally ran a dairy. started an elevator business. Now we have
“They peddled milk into the town of five or six highway tractors on the road just
Picton until 1945, then sold the dairy busi- about every day.”
ness out to Prince Edward Dairies in Picton, The Anderson family worked hard and
which is long gone now too.” did well through the nineteenth and twen-
He says in 1961 the milk cows were sold, tieth centuries. Times have changed and
the family bought more land and went into they’re still going strong in the 21st century.
cash crop farming. “Over the years, we
used to grow canning crops when the

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