Elliot Irwin McLoughry

E.I. McLoughry was born in Grey County and graduated from the Ontario Agricultural College with a BSA degree. During his twenty-seven years as agricultural representative in Waterloo County from 1924 to 1951 he introduced a three-month course for farms at the OAC, set up the first advanced registry swine-testing station in Ontario in the 1930s, was instrumental in launching the first commercial artificial insemination program 1942 and organized the first soil- testing program in Ontario in 1947. He fostered good rural-urban relations.

In 1951 he became associate director of extension, OAC, and then was director of extension of the Ontario Department of Agriculture from 1964 until his retirement. He was secretary of the Ontario Holstein-Friesian Association for 26 years, chairman of the Junior Farmers Establishment Loan Board and a member of the Soil Conservation Society of America, the Agricultural Institute of Canada and Ontario Professional Agrologists. He received a certificate of merit from the South Waterloo Agricultural Society and the Centennial Medal in 1974 from the OAC.