Spruce Lane Farm is over 100 years old and is an historical attraction at the beautiful Bronte Creek Provincial Park bordering Oakville and Burlington, ON. The yard is populated with pigs and chickens and the farmhouse is furnished and decorated in late Victorian style. Staff and volunteers dress in period costumes during its farm tours that run from May through September.

But there was something missing from the farmland surrounding Spruce Lane: horses.

“We run this farm as a period farm but to have the full historical effect, we needed horses,” said Andrew Cirtwill, the education leader at BCPP.

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