When the School Horse Was King

The gentle and faithful school pony was both companion and guide to countless thousands of children, and school horses made a real, though frequently unrecognized, contribution to the development and progess of education in rural Canada from the 1880s right up to the 1960s. For those who remember Old Fred, Bingo, Buster, Major, and Bessie, and for those who have heard tell of them, leafing through...