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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.

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.

Date12/16/1984
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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
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
11/30/1987
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
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
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
A tall order: Mike Crosby, owner of Erin Tree Farm in Erin Township, shoulders a Scotch pine Christmas tree and prepares it for shipment. His pay-and-cut farm is on Concession 10, 4 kilometres north of Highway 24.
A tall order: Mike Crosby, owner of Erin Tree Farm in Erin Township, shoulders a Scotch pine Christmas tree and prepares it for shipment. His pay-and-cut farm is on Concession 10, 4 kilometres north of Highway 24.
11/25/1990
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
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
Pupils hunt a Christmas Tree. Three of 300 Toronto school children making their annual Christmas tree trek to Drysdale Tree Farm near Ballantree get s(...)
Pupils hunt a Christmas Tree. Three of 300 Toronto school children making their annual Christmas tree trek to Drysdale Tree Farm near Ballantree get s(...)
12/5/1968
Danielle Leamy, left, and Natalie Parkinson, both 4, junior kindergarten pupils from Dallington Elementary School, North York, celebrated Earth Day last week by dousing a freshly planted tree
Danielle Leamy, left, and Natalie Parkinson, both 4, junior kindergarten pupils from Dallington Elementary School, North York, celebrated Earth Day last week by dousing a freshly planted tree
4/22/1992