harvest excursion

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a low-fare railway trip for field-workers travelling to the West to harvest grain.

Quotations

1925

"Why, us folks at the station knew there must have been a to-do of some kind when Neil Gordon went off on the harvest excursion the way he did."

1966

The wheels began to turn and the first Harvest Excursion got underway. The date was July 28, 1891.