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or vicinity. A man by the name of Dodge imported a large white stallion 

 from Europe, a show horse but not a fast one ". 



We endeavored later in 1892 to have this Mr. Dansereau interviewed 

 again at Montreal, but the interview proved a failure because of his broken 

 health. It will be observed that the Canadians generally designate as 

 "Americans" those who live in the United States. 



Louis Dupuis of Contre-Cceur, born February i3th, 1798, said : "When 

 I was nine or ten years old my mother married Louis Dansereau. After he 

 married her, and when I was about seventeen or eighteen, he traded with an 

 American at Montreal for a black pacing mare. I was living with him when 

 he got this mare. I lived with htm until I was married, which was when I 

 was twenty-two years old. Dansereau had no fast stallion before he traded 

 for this black pacing mare with the American at Montreal. She was not in 

 foal when he got her, but he bred her to a bay horse, rangy and well built, 

 about fifteen hands high, nine hundred and fifty pounds, that a neighbor, 

 Pierre Fiset, owned, but did not breed, and got a black pacing mare, and 

 from this last black mare he raised first or second a black stallion, that he 

 sold to Vassar, and afterwards other horses that were very noted ; most, if 

 not all of them, fast pacers. This Vassar Horse was killed by a shaft when 

 pacing. There were no fast pacers here before the Dansereau horses. I 

 think the second black pacing mare had a mare colt before she had the horse. 

 Her mother was bred a second time, but died. This mother, or Montreal 

 mare, was all black, and both trotted and paced ; a good mare (s/ne 

 bonne jumenf). The sire of the Vassar Horse was the Duhamel Horse of St 

 Ours, a black pacing horse, fifteen hands high, one of those that were fast at 

 that time. There were not many such. He did not look like the common 

 French horses, but better. I do not know whether Duhamel bred or 

 bought this horse. He was young, five or six years old, when Dansereau 

 bred to him. I think Dansereau bred the first stallion, the one he sold 

 Vassar, when I lived with him. I do not remember of his breeding to any 

 other horse except the Duhamel Horse. I think after he got his first stal- 

 lion he bred to his own stallion. After I married I moved five miles away 

 from where Mr. Dansereau lived, but often visited and worked at his place. 

 A good many mares and colts were brought here from the States and traded ; 

 the mares sometimes in foal. The Duhamel Horse was a fine horse, as 

 fine as the Dansereau horses. La Bonte had a horse, but he was not as good 

 and came later. Duhamel did not keep his horse long; sold him. Du- 

 hamel was then a young man, perhaps twenty-four. His name was Jean 

 Baptiste Duhamel ". 



In a second interview, Louis Dupuis said : " The mare got at Montreal 

 of an American could trot and pace, an excellent beast. The Fiset Horse 

 that she was bred to, and that was the sire of Louis Dansereau's famous 

 black pacing mare, was a handsome red horse (im joli cheval rouge}, a. 

 trotter, and about the size and shape of your gray mare ", referring to one 

 of the gray pair we were driving, Louise, a handsome daughter of Motion by 



