William Woodbridge Hubbard

New Brunswick

The contributions which men make during their lifetime so often are not fully realized, nor appreciated, to their fullest until after the men in question have passed away. So, it is as one reviews the activities and accomplishments of William Woodbridge Hubbard.

Mr. Hubbard was born at Burton Hill Farm, Burton, Sunbury County, New Brunswick, was educated at the Sunbury County Grammar School and the Ontario Agricultural College, from which he graduated in 1884. He then returned to follow a career in agriculture in his native Province where he made horses, cattle, sheep and, later, apples his specialties.

Mr. Hubbard's qualities of leadership and his administrative ability were soon realized, with the result that he was asked to accept a succession of influential positions and offices, all of which had a direct and distinct bearing on the development of the agricultural industry in the Province of New Brunswick.

In his capacity of Agricultural Agent for the C.P.R., Mr. Hubbard persuaded the New Brunswick Government to plant experimental apple orchards in each County to determine the apple variety best suited to each County. Later, he became Secretary for Agriculture with the status of Deputy Minister and, later still, the first Superintendent of the Dominion Experimental Farm, Fredericton, which site he selected.

These were years of great expansion and development in New Brunswick agricultural organizations, in production, and in the field of agricultural research, in all of which Mr. Hubbard left the stamp of his genius and his leadership.