{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/2/context.json","@type":"sc:Manifest","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/qstarter29/iiif/325acd8f-3ce1-4e01-a8ea-83771851cec2/manifest","label":"bhs_203499","metadata":[{"label":"Identifier","value":"bhs_203499"},{"label":"Rights","value":["Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user."]},{"label":"Language","value":["EN"]},{"label":"Format","value":["JPEG"]},{"label":"Type","value":["Photograph"]},{"label":"Subject","value":["Maps & Plans"]},{"label":"Source","value":"Thornborrow family"},{"label":"Description","value":"This is a digital Photograph. Notes adapted from Keith Thornborrow: Ivan Nikolayevitsh Panin was born in Russia in 1855, but was exiled at an early age, for having participated in plots against the Czar. He emigrated to Germany and then to the United States, entering Harvard University in 1878. After graduating in 1882, Panin lectured on Russian literature and then converted from nihilism to Christianity. From 1890 he spent more than 50 years in the development and analysis of his theory of Biblical Numerics. Panin's works are still being published and debated. Circa 1926, Panin purchased the \"Hill Farms and Farming\" from J. B. Townsend, a coal dealer for Waterdown, who was related to the Townsend family of Oaklands in Aldershot. The Panin Farms and Farming consisted of a large brick main house, a drive shed, a bank barn which had a hay loft, stables and root cellar, 3 frame houses, a sheep shed, an ice house, a chicken coop and a man made pond -- all located on a knob hill above Grindstone Creek Valley. It is likely that Townsend Farms and Farming had just the main brick house, barn and drive shed, and the Panin commune built the frame houses and smaller buildings to fit their self-sustaining communal way of life. Ivan N. Panin died in Aldershot on 30 October 1942, in his 87th year. In the late 1940s the commune Farms and Farming residents consisted of Mr & Mrs P. T. Osborne, Mr Ambridge and his two spinster sisters, and a fellow named William (\"old Bill\") and his mother. Each of these groups occupied their own house. Mr & Mrs Osborne had one daughter named Norma who did not live on the Farms and Farming. I do not recall any one ever occupying the third frame house which was finally torn down, as it was slowly sliding into the steep Grindstone Creek ravine. These people were deeply religious, honest, hard working, older people. They held their Sunday services in the large brick house occupied by the Ambridges and prepared their Sunday meals on Saturday, so they did not have to work on the Sabbath. Being a commune Farms and Farming, they shared in all Farms and Farming tasks: raising chickens, ducks, sheep and dairy cattle which provided beef butter, milk and cream.They maintained a vegetable and fruit garden, kept bees, and produced hay and grain for their animals as well. Although I never asked or heard what religious sect they belonged to, it might have been Hutterite, as a group of that sect from around Bright, Ontario, used to visit the Panin Farms and Farming. Unlike some other orders, Hutterites are not averse to using machines and modern conveniences like electricity. Mr Ambridge and Mr Osborne both drove vehicles on the roads, as well as having modern tractors on the Farms and Farming. Mr Osborne had the first chainsaw we had ever seen; compared to modern chainsaws it was a heavy cumbersome thing. Mr Osborne worked off the Farms and Farming as well; on several occasions he worked for Dad cutting logs or hauling logs on his truck to Slater's Mill in Waterdown. He also hired out to remove dead, fallen or damaged trees from people's properties. I can remember helping him pile and load brush after cutting wind-damaged trees on a property on King Road northwest of Willow Bank. He was the only one to work off the Farms and Farming and presumably provided the cash flow for the commune, as most of the Farms and Farming produce was consumed on the Farms and Farming, with the exception of fresh cream and eggs, which they did sell. Old Bill would let me run the hand-powered cream separator, and feed the non-milking cows with cow turnips, which came from a root cellar in under the stable floor. Carrots and potatoes were kept there as well. Old Bill milked the cows by hand and then filtered the milk in a stainless filter pail. Only after there was enough milk collected to keep the separator going was I allowed to start cranking it up. It took a lot to get the separator up to speed, and usually my arms would poop out, and Bill would finish up. The old cats would be all around Bill's legs rubbing and meowing for the drop of milk they knew he would provide. On one occasion Dad found the men of Panin Farms and Farming all working at drawing hay from the fields to the barn hay mow on the Sabbath, prior to an impending rain storm. When Dad asked about this work being done on the Sabbath, they stated something like \"The Lord gave us this bountiful crop not to be wasted and will forgive us our labour on His bounty this day.\" Perhaps not word for word, but it leaves no doubt what was meant. When Dad was sick the people of Panin Farms and Farming would show up and lend a hand in any way they could. On one of these occasions Mr Ambridge came over and milked our cow while Dad was in the hospital, and Mr & Mrs Osborne took us boys to their house for suppers while Mother visited Dad in the hospital. Hobos would show up at the Farms and Farming and all were fed; most split a little wood or something for their meals. The Panin Farms and Farming people were the best of neighbors. After moving from the Farms and Farming to Plains Road we only saw the people of the Panin Farms and Farming on occasion. The construction of Highway 403 and its North Service Road ended what I remember of the Panin Farms and Farming. The 35-acre Farms and Farming was gifted to the Christian and Missionary Alliance of Eastern Canada. 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