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Lady Blacksmith

Lady Blacksmith

Henrietta Verwey is based in Ottawa and does blacksmithing demos. Here she's heating her iron in a...

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A small curl at the end of the iron rod has been made. This is the start of a S-hook.

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Lady Blacksmith

Lady Blacksmith

Henrietta flattens the end of the iron rod before curling it over.

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A twist is put into the centre of the S-hook with a vice, pliers and a lot of strength.

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Lady Blacksmith

Heavy horse pull

Henrietta gives the finished S-hook to two interested kids.

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Heavy horse pull

Heavy horses

I think there are about 10,000 lbs on the sleigh these horses are pulling. The sled is another 500...

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A pair of draft horses approach the sled for their turn to pull.

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Heavy horses

Coloured chickens

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I've heard about artificial colouring but this seems a bit much: chickens dyed pink, orange and...

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Ducks

Green chicken

At least they're not dyed.

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The chicken was dyed green to show that the fair had "gone green" this year.

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Halter class

Heavy horse pull

One of the horses in the halter class show.

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A team of horses gets ready to take their turn at the weight sled.

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Heavy horses

Unicorn hitch

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A three horse hitch (unicorn hitch) rounds the bend in the arena.

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Single hitch

Bituminous coal

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There was a "Lady Blacksmith" at the Fair for the second year in a row. She has a...

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