was president of the Equitable Maritime Fox Company Ltd. He was a director of the Conway Consolidated Ltd. and the Maine and Northumberland Foxes Ltd. His ranch was behind the present day O’Leary Community Hospital. He was in business when the silver - black strain was developed. Oulton and Dalton crossed a wild red fox with a pure black fox. The result was a stupendous success. George himself had fifty foxes. The foxes were killed in the fall and shipped to Sweden, Norway, and other European countries. The fox farmers often travelled to Summerside on the train to sell their furs in a ”fur pool". This was a sort of auction.

O'Leary Foxes.

Another man who capitalized on the fox industry was William H. Dennis. He had one of the first fox ranches. He went to Montreal and bought a pair of silver foxes. Mr. Dennis and his son, Cecil, had about twelve or fifteen pair of foxes. They had telephones in each den so they could hear when the pups were born to get them out before their mothers killed them. Cecil installed many of these phones for other people. During the fox era, it is reported that Cecil skinned over half the foxes raised in O’Leary. The first buyers were from England. Later a great many buyers from the United States and other places located in Summerside. Some people would go from buyer to buyer to get the best price, if the buyers realized this they would not buy from these people.

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