Ray Carr and his two sons Ira and Ralph with prize silver foxes in 1940

Ray Carr coll.

proving successful, very soon a number of other farmers were engaged in fox farming; these included Herbert Kielly, Isaac Lawson, Percy Douglas, Lloyd Shaw, John Bernard, John C. MacAulay, Malcolm MacLeod, James MacLauchlan, Warren Marshall and Sydney Ranicar. As well as raising foxes himself, Isaac Lawson worked at the MacLure and MacKinnon fox ranch on N orwood Road.

The fox farms varied from a few pens in a corner of the barnyard to a specially constructed enclosure housing numerous foxes. The ranch consiSted of pens with high wire walls with an overhang of wire at the top to prevent the foxes jumping out; the wire walls were sunk several feet into the ground to prevent them from burrowing to freedom. In each pen was a den for housing the fox in severe weather and also to protect the mother and her pups. When the foxes were to be moved, tongs were used to catch and control them. _

The foxes were fed milk, meat, fish, cereal and fox biscuits. A

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