History

In 1903 the Watson/Morris family began servicing the agriculture community by offering custom threshing to farms in the Queensville Ontario area. This involved threshing in the field in the summer with their steam powered traction engine, and barn threshing all winter. With a grain binder, the wheat was bundled in shieves, and stored in the mow of the barn, then later thrashed. Robert Morris’ grandfather Albert Watson led this venture until 1928 when he retired.

Starting in 1944 until 1954 Robert’s father James Morris provided custom trucking (droving) of livestock to the Toronto livestock markets. As this was prior to the livestock marketing boards, James bought the livestock from the producers and resold it at the livestock markets. From 1956 until 1966, James owned and operated a mink ranch in Ravenshoe, Ontario.

Robert began working for Master Feeds in 1967 developing feeding programs for mink, poultry, dairy cattle, hogs and selling feed. He helped area farmers obtain financing for setting them up in larger, more economical ventures. The financial projecting skills Robert developed putting farm projections together drew him to the Toronto Dominion bank in 1974. He worked at the TD Bank until 1986 when he started the Insurance Brokerage you know today.