This is what CKNX, Wingham, has to say about his
broadcasting career:
Harold
Smith grew up on a farm in Dover, and eventually hosted the show (CFCO’s Farm Show)
starting in 1962. His son Bob says Smith was filling a need in the Chatham-Kent
agricultural community.
“He
basically came in and pitched them on the idea they needed someone to do farm
reporting,” says Smith “Especially in a market like that, which is so heavily
agricultural, there were no farm reports to speak of.”
Smith
worked on the farm for nearly his entire life. Bob adds he still feels the
impact his father made on Chatham-Kent.
“I can’t
tell you how many times I’ve bumped into people over the years who grew up in
the area. Whenever he was on it was like ‘Shhhh, Harold Smith is on the air.’ I
think we were the only family who didn’t get that, because he was home and
already recorded it, so we didn’t need to listen to it!”
Smith
says a private ceremony
will take place and that a memorial service will likely be held in
the spring.
Harold
Smith is survived by his wife Ruth, his four sons Douglas, James, Bob and
David, and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
He was inducted into
the Kent Agricultural Hall of Fame in 1993.
