CRHA Hall of Fame Glen & Lori Downey & Family/Elaine Downey – 2013 Inductees Congratulations to Glen & Lori Downey on being inducted into the Canadian Road Horse Hall of Fame in 2013. Glen Downey grew up in a horse showing family. His grandfather and father both showed draft and Commercial horses. In Glen’s early …
CRHA Hall of Fame Lloyd & Lois McLean & Family/Ross McLean & Family — 2014 Inductees Previous Next Horses have been in the McLean blood for years. Four generations of McLean’s from Acton, Ontario, have shown horses. Donald McLean, Ross’ grandfather was well known in the Commercial horse ring. Lloyd helped him at the local …
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CRHA Hall of Fame Howard & Norma Salisbury – 2015 Inductees Howard was raised on an Ayrshire dairy farm where his first exposure to a standardbred was helping his Father deliver mail. As a very young man he began showing ponies at Brome Fair. Howard bought his first roadster in 1980 named Frost Will Do, …
CRHA Hall of Fame Jim McKague – 2016 Inductee McKague Family- 2016 Jim and Phyllis’ parents, Ross and Edna McKague. were known by many. Edna rode jumping horses as a young girl and when she married Ross they began showing commercial and hackney horses for many years at local fairs, the CNE and the Royal. …
CRHA Hall of Fame Elmer & Kay Todd – 2017 Inductees 2017 CRHA Hall of Fame Inductees Elmer and Kay Todd always had horses in their lives. Before they had even met, they were each involved with horses, from Kay riding her horse to school every day to Elmer building a covered sled to take …
CRHA Hall of Fame Wayne & Shirley Scharf – 2018 Inductees Previous Next The Scharf family has been in the horse business for 5 generations. Wayne’s grandfather and his father provided work horses and dump carts for the construction of Carling Avenue in Ottawa. Eventually Wayne’s father Orville, purchased a dump truck and no longer …
CRHA Hall of Fame Normand Plouffe & Judy Gauvin – 2019 Inductees Norm grew up on a country farm in a town where the fieldwork was done with horses. And began driving horses when he was only 5 years old. He got his first saddle horse when he was 17 and from that day, he …