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Timber!: Tara Gauthier, 5, left, puts blade to trunk as Brian McGee, 4, and Keith Horton of Horton Tree Farm help out during Wexford Public School students' outing to cut their own
Timber!: Tara Gauthier, 5, left, puts blade to trunk as Brian McGee, 4, and Keith Horton of Horton Tree Farm help out during Wexford Public School students' outing to cut their own

Timber!: Tara Gauthier, 5, left, puts blade to trunk as Brian McGee, 4, and Keith Horton of Horton Tree Farm help out during Wexford Public School students' outing to cut their own

Date11/30/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Timber!: Tara Gauthier; 5; left; puts blade to trunk as Brian McGee; 4; and Keith Horton of Horton Tree Farm help out during Wexford Public School students' outing to cut their own.
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Real christmas tradition: Grade 1 students from Rene Gordon Public School hoist their prize Christmas tree after cutting it at Horton Tree Farm
Real christmas tradition: Grade 1 students from Rene Gordon Public School hoist their prize Christmas tree after cutting it at Horton Tree Farm
11/29/1991
Horton Tree Farm worker Jamie Hopkins shows young school children how a cut Christmas tree is tied up with a mesh net by machine to make it easier to (...)
Horton Tree Farm worker Jamie Hopkins shows young school children how a cut Christmas tree is tied up with a mesh net by machine to make it easier to (...)
12/17/1976
Everybody still on?, A tractor pulls a flatbed full of parents and children on their way to chop down a tree at Horton Tree Farms yesterday
Everybody still on?, A tractor pulls a flatbed full of parents and children on their way to chop down a tree at Horton Tree Farms yesterday
12/16/1984
Holiday Haul: Children drag a Christmas tree from the Horton Tree Farm
Holiday Haul: Children drag a Christmas tree from the Horton Tree Farm
12/5/1991
St. Nick? Keith Horton, president of the Christmas tree growers' association, donned a hat and pipe in the St. Nick tradition to entertain visitors at his tree farm in Vandorf, Ont., yesterday. At right, Gordon Gay with dogs Kashmir and Merlin head back to the car with their freshly cut tree. The farm is open daily.
St. Nick? Keith Horton, president of the Christmas tree growers' association, donned a hat and pipe in the St. Nick tradition to entertain visitors at his tree farm in Vandorf, Ont., yesterday. At right, Gordon Gay with dogs Kashmir and Merlin head back to the car with their freshly cut tree. The farm is open daily.
12/16/1984
Tasting the Sweetness of Spring, The sap is beginning to run in maple trees, so Keith Horton began taping Saturday on his tree farm near Stouffville a(...)
Tasting the Sweetness of Spring, The sap is beginning to run in maple trees, so Keith Horton began taping Saturday on his tree farm near Stouffville a(...)
3/4/1975
Tasting the sweetness of spring, The sap is beginning to run in maple trees, so Keith Horton began tapping Saturday on his tree farm near Stouffville (...)
Tasting the sweetness of spring, The sap is beginning to run in maple trees, so Keith Horton began tapping Saturday on his tree farm near Stouffville (...)
3/4/1975
A day's outing can be lots of fun if family members go out to cut down their won Christmas tree
A day's outing can be lots of fun if family members go out to cut down their won Christmas tree
12/14/1980
They saw a tree: Bob Murcott of Rolling Meadows Farm near Brooklin shows children how to cut down a Christmas tree
They saw a tree: Bob Murcott of Rolling Meadows Farm near Brooklin shows children how to cut down a Christmas tree
11/21/1990
Proud lumberjack: Billy Dunlop, 5, found just the Christmas tree for his family at the Bose Tress Farm, one of several serve-yourself farms in the Metro area
Proud lumberjack: Billy Dunlop, 5, found just the Christmas tree for his family at the Bose Tress Farm, one of several serve-yourself farms in the Metro area
12/7/1982
A 2-year-old wolf, Rocky, who weighs 80 pounds, was at the Ontario Wolf League's picnic yesterday at Horton's Tree Farm, near Ballantrae, and made fri(...)
A 2-year-old wolf, Rocky, who weighs 80 pounds, was at the Ontario Wolf League's picnic yesterday at Horton's Tree Farm, near Ballantrae, and made fri(...)
7/14/1974
Like thousands from Metro, Wayne and Janice Addison chose yesterday for a country outing --in their case north of Pickering -- to choose a Christmas tree
Like thousands from Metro, Wayne and Janice Addison chose yesterday for a country outing --in their case north of Pickering -- to choose a Christmas tree
12/16/1978