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Scotia, and Prince Edward Island were of tribes loosely described 

 as Maine Messengers. For this there are ample geographical and 

 natural reasons. That part of Quebec nearest them has never 

 been rich in horses nor in anything else which the Provincials 

 want, or in which they trade. The people of eastern New Eng- 

 land are their natural trading neighbors, and the city of St. John, 

 New Brunswick, especially in the past, the common market 

 place; and almost all the earlier Maritime trotting sires trace 

 through St. John to Maine, or some of the other New England 

 States. It is a fact, too, that for generations enterprising horse- 

 men, in the lower provinces, have been importing American trot- 

 ting stallions for service, and to-day the trotting stock of these 

 provinces is very thoroughly Americanized. While the exporta- 

 tion of horses, principally to Boston and Bangor, is one of the in- 

 dustries of Nova Scotia and of Prince Edward Island especially, 

 .almost without exception trotting and pacing stallions in use 

 there are imported American horses, or the descendants of 

 American trotting sires; while, as we have noted, the foundation 

 stock came chiefly from Maine, and in very small degree from 

 Ontario or Quebec. In either of the Maritime provinces it is a 

 rarity to find a trotting horse that has not more or less of Ameri- 

 oan blood. 



