The plan is to erect a small (1/4 size) bronze pony with 2 children mounted on a Tyndall stone base in the community of Oakville, Manitoba to serve as a memorial to an important contributor to the early education of Canadian children. Along with the sculpture, several stepping stones made showing a single pony pulling a buggy or cart, a single pony pulling a cutter and a single pony pulling a caboose.

The statue has been ordered and $625 has been raised to date which is about 1/20 of the total cost of the project. Find out how you can donate here!  

We are collecting stories to share on the site and may publish them in a book at a later date. Please submit your stories here!

The School Pony
For many children among the settler families in Canada, school distances were much too far for small children to walk. Rural children made friends of the animals on their parental farms and these friends, if equine in nature ensured that even six-year-olds could travel safely to and from school.

Older children who had a long-standing relationship with a pony friend might have had some interesting tales to tell about their twice-daily trip. It is the purpose of this web page to collect some of these tales and share them among the remaining folk who used school ponies and to leave a legacy of history to their descendants.