676 A HISTORY OF SHORT-HORN CATTLE. 



career in the show-yards of the West, forecasted 

 trade possibilities which the Dominion breed- 

 ers were quick to grasp. The commanding 

 position assumed at once by Hillhurst has al- 

 ready been indicated, and while Mr. Cochrane 

 was operating in the deep waters of the Bates 

 and Booth speculation certain of his contem- 

 poraries in the province of Ontario were quietly 

 sowing the seed which was in time to work a 

 revolution in the Short-horn standards of two 

 continents. 



First Sittyton cattle in Canada. The earli- 

 est importation into Canada from Sittyton of 

 which we find record was a small shipment 

 made in 1859 or 1860 by Mr. Neil McOillivray 

 of Williamstown, consisting of the jed cow 

 Honesty, by Procurator (10657) out of Fidelity 

 by Prince Edward Fairfax; her red bull calf 

 Baronet, sired by The Baron (13833); the roan 

 cow Model, by Matadore (11800) out of Bru- 

 nette by Prince Edward Fairfax; and the roan 

 bull Royal George (16866), by Master Butterfly 

 2d (14918) out of Princess Mary by The Baron. 

 These were accompanied by the roan heifer 

 Nina, of Mark Stewart's breeding, and a roan 

 heifer called Souvenir, bred by J. Grundy of 

 The Dales, near Manchester, England. 



In the year 1867 Geo. Isaac, a Scotchman 

 who had settled in Canada in 1842, began im- 

 porting stock from the herd of his brother-in- 



