Paying tribute to the many work horses that did the heavy work of clearing the land, skidding logs for new homes and for the masts of the British Navy. They helped to build roads and plowed fields in Pickering. The work horse represents a time when man and horse worked closely together, in a synergistic way. With a single horsepower, or a team of powerful draft horses much was accomplished. 

By 1900 large, imported working breeds such as Percherons, Belgians, Shires, and Clydesdales provided 

for nearly 1/3 the continent’s mobile energy needs. 

Replaced in the 1920’s with steam powered wagons and the internal combustion engine. 

But in the country the Horse continued to do the heavy work of plowing and hauling 

over rough, muddy roads and fields. 

Inspired by a draft horse named “Judy” whose owner would lead her into the bush and hitch her to a log. 

She would find her way back to the road where the log would be unhitched and she would return to another all day. . She was the first autonomous off road “vehicle” powered by eating hay and grain every evening.

While much has changed Horsepower is still the measure of all Power!