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User Login Email: Password:    » Forgot Password?  » New Member Sign Up Visitors Online: Today's Visits: Yesterday's Visits: Horses Menu Home Horses For Sale Welcome to Canadian Horse ! You are here: Terrific-Horses.com > Horse Breeds > Canadian Horse Book Search: Canadian Horse Description Canadian Horse or Canada's National Horse is a sturdy breed descended from Norman and Breton horses sent to the “New World” by King Louis XIV of France in the late 1600’s. These horses were thought to be of Arab, Barb, and Andalusian ancestry. They ultimately developed into what is known as the Canada's National Horse. Some of their traits can still be recognized in the Canadian Horse today. These French horses were bred for hundreds of years with only a slight influence from other breeds. This horse evolved through the conditions of hard work, scarce food, and harsh weather. Canada's National Horse is good for plowing, as a carriage horse, and could be referred to as an all-purpose utility horse. Canada's National Horse could be found in Canada and throughout the United States around the middle 1850s. The Canadian Horse was used for foundation breeding to improve the strength and stamina of other breeds such as the Tennessee Walking Horse, Morgan, American Saddlebred, and the Standardbred. Exportation of the Canadian Horses increased to the West Indies and to the United States for use on the stage-lines and the American Civil War. With the introduction of mechanized farm machinery the Canadian Horse almost disappeared completely. The people of Canada realized the national breed was dwindling and made efforts to try to bring the Canadian Horse back from the verge of extinction. There were breeding programs set up around 1913 in Quebec at Cap Rouge, St. Joachim and La Gorgendiere were they continued to breed the Canadian Horse until 1981. Google Ads

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