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Joe Jarvis..............................9 Pro and Non-Pro
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Joe Jarvis
fun, he also sired a few pony foals. Joe remembers Johnny Royle well, JR had an uncanny ability to rhyme off who had purchased which horse and when. Joe’s first horse was a standard-
In 1942 Lenord Herbert Jarvis
came into this world the fifth child for parents Herbert and Kathleen. Several years later after the birth of his little brother Ralph he received a nick name that stuck (Lenord was too much for lil bro to pronounce). “Joe” Jarvis as he is known by almost everyone started his employment career at the age of 16 in the “boys club” at General Motors in Oshawa holding numerous positions and very active in the union. Just shy of his 30th work anniversary he retired from GM one of the youngest to ever retire with 30 years. In 1962 he married, moved to
Hampton and purchased his first of many ponies. Frosty was a little black pony that provided hours of fun for everyone, including his nephews Randy and Andy. It wasn’t long before younger brother Ralph made a pur- chase of his own. In 1963 having not found the right horse at an auction Joe and Ralph were invited by Johnny Royal to come by his farm to look at some potential stock. Joe wasn’t sure how they were going to get a good look as it was after midnight. Johnny Royle had the first indoor riding arena they had ever seen or even heard about. Ralph picked out a palomino stallion with a strong stock horse style build. Sundance was a yearling and over the years provided many hours of
bred mare he bought in the mid 60’s. Penny was found just a few miles from his home and as fate would have it, she was purchased at a farm that much later would later be owned by Joe’s young brother Ralph. In 1967 Joe and his wife Shirley moved to Middle Road still in the same small hamlet of Hampton. This would be the second home the couple had built with their own hands. Often family would offer a hand with pounding nails, and a fella by the name of Gord Knapp was hired for .35 cents/hour. Shortly after moving in they built a four stall cinder block barn to house the numer- ous horses that would soon follow. At the time this 10 acre farm was one of very few that used wood shavings to bed their horses. The local mushroom farm came by regularly to take the ma- nure pile using it for the growth of their mushrooms. Joe remembers purchasing his
first quarter horse Kahock Bonnie, it was the last day of a GM worker strike. After agreeing to the purchase his dad drove him back to the picket
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up their hooves for $7.00 per animal. A fella by the name of Durwood tried to teach Joe the trade of farriering but after a few sweaty back breaking les- sons Joe decided that Donnie was well worth the seven dollars. A lifetime friendship also grew from that deci- sion. Many friendships were formed as the barn stalls filled with boarded
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line and later that evening he learned of a fire that burnt the barn in which Bonnie resided right to the ground. Luckily no horses were injured due to the fast action of good samaritans that got them safely moved to nearby pastures. The little four
stall cinder block barn quickly turned into a ten stall hip-roof with a hayloft and separate sec- tion to store loose shav- ings. Using
horses. Rick Davis, Larry Strank, Mickey Barnier, Wayne Wickett, Nancy Nicholson, Cathy Rockert, Brenda Norman, Skip Lane, and the list goes on. Travelling east to Trenton for a show for quarter horses but not AQHA sanctioned Joe remembers the judge with a certain fondness not just for the top placings he won but be- cause Roy Ionson would become a life long friend. Jolly Roger a beautiful grey stal-
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ingenuity Joe built a shoot to slide hay down from the loft and a trap door in the floor of the shavings section for quick bedding of the stalls. In those late 60’s
Donnie Brooks would stop by your farm clip your horse’s hair and trim
lion with a black spotted blanket on his hip was one of the first POA ponies in Ontario. Joe brought him up from the states and crossed a few pony mares with him. He was both an award winner and a producer of fine foals. Kim Cody, a local young girl that had a strong love for horses showed many of Joe’s horses as his own children were too young.
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