I decided to give Pat and Marguerite Whelan a call to find out how they were doing. I also wanted to pick their brains about life in Newfoundland many years ago.
Pat told me he can even remember the names of the horses that were here back when the first settlers came. Albert Antle drove Paddy and Wes Foote used Gerry who was an identical color or twin to Paddy. Jack and Jeff were two other identical horses. Tom Bishop's father Jimmy Bishop drove Maggie who was a trotting horse and she was used to deliver groceries.
I asked him where the horse came from and he said there was someone in Stephenville Crossing who brought the horses down from teh mainland and sold them across the island.
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