2 year old Stallion Lawrence of
Woodmont Farm Vancouver Island

For 350 years the Canadian Horse has cleared and worked the land, carried children to school, pulled cutters and carriages, carried soldiers into battle and provided companionship, loyalty and entertainment to their masters. The Canadian Horse has survived and evolved under conditions of hard use, sparse feed, and extreme weather conditions to become the easy keeping and exceptionally strong animal that it is today.

The Canadian Horse is now gaining in popularity as horse lovers are rediscovering the wonderful intelligence, kind and even temperament, adaptability and versatility of the breed. Today they can be found in jumping and dressage rings, on endurance trails, carriage and combined driving, western trail classes or performing everyday ranch tasks. As a pleasure horse or a competitor the Canadian gives us his heart just as his forefathers did.

Furie in Competition Ontario

Morning Sleigh Ride
Gimlet Farms, Alberta

Alberta Winter Logging
Gimlet Farms, Alberta

Furie Fall Dressage, Ontario

An outing at Woodmont Farm
Vancouver Island

Phoebe Kingscote of
Tanglewood Farm with Stallion
Billy

Stallion Furie with owner
Kelly-Anne Mullholland Royal Winter Fair, Ontario

Today the symbol of the horse plays a large role in many cultures. To many the horse represents freedom, wisdom and strength, courage and power. Horses are living symbols of all that life has to offer-from the highs of poetry in motion to the lows of all out-war.

And the Canadian Horse is one of the strongest and most courageous breeds in the world. The story of it's courage, intelligence, resilience, kind and hard working nature has become legend and has captured the imagination and hearts of Canadians everywhere.

It has those traits that we as Canadians value. This noble and peaceful emissary was chosen by Parliament on April 23rd, 2002 as a national symbol to represent who and what we stand for as "Canadians". Finally it has the recognition it deserves. Once a gift, now it's our inheritance and something to be proud of. It's not just the year of the horse - it's the year of our horse.

Now let's show it off!

Kate and Molly in competition

RCMP officer with Stallion Gyco
Errington, Vancouver Island

Duke and Shane Juuti at
Battle of the Breeds
Spruce Meadows, 2001

Duke and Shane Juuti at work on the ranch West Gimlet Farms, Rimbey, Alberta