{"id":7749,"date":"2021-02-28T18:12:57","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T23:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7749"},"modified":"2021-02-28T18:13:28","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T23:13:28","slug":"episode-268-lorne-saunders-winter-sleigh-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=7749","title":{"rendered":"EPISODE 268 LORNE SAUNDERS WINTER SLEIGH RIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"
EPISODE 268      LORNE SAUNDERS AND FAMILY :  WINTER SLEIGH RIDE  1975<\/p>\n

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alan skeoch<\/div>\n
Feb. 2021<\/div>\n

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A team of horses on a farm in Southern Ontario was as common as hen\u2019s teeth even as late as  the 1940\u2019s. <\/div>\n
But tractors were doing most of the farm labour by then.  By the 1970\u2019s most of those teams<\/div>\n
were gone.   Their harness may be hanging on big pegs where the horse  stalls might remain but<\/div>\n
the horses were gone.<\/div>\n

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There were exceptions, farmers who kept a team and used them for winter work like logging<\/div>\n
\u2026horses did  far less damage to a forest than tractors and bulldozers.  Marjorie\u2019s guardian once<\/div>\n
took us into that kind of lumber camp near North Bay.   Horses were used to fish new cut<\/div>\n
logs out of the forest without pulling down and smashing new growth.  Deep snow was no problem.<\/div>\n

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Other farmers found horses were especially useful hauling manure to the back fields<\/div>\n
when the snow was deep.  <\/div>\n

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Lorne Saunders and his team made Saturday afternoon sleigh rides into a family outing.<\/div>\n
In the picture below Lorne is standing on the pile of manure talking to his team while<\/div>\n
his wife Carole and their first born boy Alfie are resting at the back on an old stuffed<\/div>\n
cushion.   <\/div>\n

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Their are three pitch forks.   I think there was method to Lorne\u2019s madness when<\/div>\n
he asked us to tag along.  <\/div>\n

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Site: Fifth Line, Erin Township, Wellington County, date 1975 or thereabouts<\/div>\n

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EPISODE 268      LORNE SAUNDERS AND FAMILY :  WINTER SLEIGH RIDE  1975 alan skeoch Feb. 2021 A team of horses on a farm in Southern Ontario was as common as hen\u2019s teeth even as late as  the 1940\u2019s.  But tractors were doing most of the farm labour by then.  By the 1970\u2019s most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}