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For nearly 250 years the people who built, defined, and defended Canada relied on horses to help get their job done. One breed stood out during that period for its outstanding role in Canadian life. It's known as "The Canadian, Le Canadien." In 2002, Parliament officially declared The Canadian to be Canada's national horse. The origins of the breed are in horses sent to New France at the express order of King Louis XIV. Beyond Quebec, Canadians carried settlers and the first North West Mounted Police into western Canada. They were also on hand to drag artillery and supplies through mud and thunder to Canada's victorious troops during the Battles of Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
The Canadian Horse is the fourth novel in the Rodeo in the Blood series. In the opening scene, C.R. Winchester steals a steer wrestling horse in Canada and smuggles him into Montana where he brands the horse with his own iron. Although C.R. intends to use the horse to further his own rodeo career, he is forced to sell him after he is jailed for a hit-and-run driving fatality. Rusty Blackstone, Warren Weston and Casey Jones buy the horse to take the place of Rusty’s great steer wrestling horse Apache. The aftershocks vibrate throughout the story, all the way to the National Finals Rodeo. Even after coming to terms with her ex-husband, Warren Weston, Jenny finds that managing the Westmont Ra...
Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
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Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1 Little Iron Horse Chapter 2 Characteristics Chapter 3 Horse Fun Facts! Conclusion Nature's Amazing Wonders Author Bio Introduction *** Canadian Horse: The Canadian horse is a very special horse that comes from Canada. They descend from draft and light riding horses and have beautiful colors like black, bay, brown and chestnut. It is a very sturdy horse. What does “sturdy” mean? Vocabulary.com says “sturdy” means: firm, steady and tough. So this horse is strong and can do lots of hard work. Do you remember what draft horses are? A draft horse. This is a horse that “draws” or “hauls” something. It is also called a work horse or heavy horse, because it works hard and pulls heavy loads. However, these types of horses are usually strong, gentle, easy to work with and very patient.
Excerpt from The French-Canadian Horse Afterwards. There was the natural selection, by the survival of the. Fittest, which eliminated. Through the cold climate and the deep winter roads. Whatever did not have enough vitality and endurance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.