One horse in particular is always remembered

To the Expositor:

Canada’s Northern Dancer, whose myriad offspring are winning races all across North America, the UK, and even Australia and Japan. On opening day at Toronto’s Woodbine track on April 12 it is a safe bet that many of the winners will be able to trace their lineage back to Northern Dancer, a famous bay born in 1961 at E.P. Taylor’s Windfields Farm near Oshawa, Ont. Northern Dancer died in 1990 and is buried at Windfields. After years of neglect, the graves of Northern Dancer and several of his fellow winners were in danger of disappearing but, alerted by public protests and media outrage, the City of Oshawa and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology took action, and the site is now open to visitors.

On Manitoulin Island we have hard working pioneers and their families buried in the historical Michael’s Bay sawmill village, since the late 1800s and early 1900s with no respect. Visitors can visit a famous racehorse but relatives can’t visit their ancestors on Michael’s Bay Town Site because the Government of Canada owns the property and has Do Not Trespass signs up.

Thanks,

Doug Tracy

Little Current