The Golden State: Where & How to Live, Secure, Visit, Enjoy and Thrive in California

Fences

THESE two drawings show superb examples of an old-time, dry stone fence, on the Kirkwood Farm Lot 5, Concession 4, in the Township of Caledon Like the fence on the preceding page it was built of boulders and field stones cleared from the adjoining fields, but is different and more costly in that the individual stones of varying size were shaped and dressed with mallet and chisel so as to lock neatly and securely together without mortar. Such fencing required no foundation carried below frost level, and moved gently with the movement of the land upon which it stood.
The artist has included in the upper drawing his co-worker and contemporary, Dr. W. Perkins Bull.

THIS nice example of a solid and well-built stone wall must share the honours with the then young Bob Haggert, Brampton, Ontario. The date was 1871, and he was the star baseball player for the rather recently formed Maple Leafs, who in that year played its first series of baseball games with the neighbouring towns.

THIS very odd-looking fence arrived in Canada with the advent of saw mills, and was commonly known as a sawyer's fence. It was supported by crossed stakes driven firmly into the ground. Mostly it was found built near one of the old saw mills, where rough slabs of wood and discarded planks were often thrown out as being of little use. At that time wood was in great abundance and the cost was low.