Photo Op/ Equine
"Where people and horses meet in the heart of the city" BY EMIL TIEDEMANN T HAT is the slogan for the Whitemud Equine Learning Centre on Fox Drive ( 13204-Fox Drive , to be exact), a place that somehow seems right at home in the middle of the city. Located within Edmonton's pituresque river valley, this non-profit organization (WELCA) offers "unique education and recreation at a beautiful pasteral horse farm in the heart of the city." And has been for close to a century! Although WELCA was established in 1999, the farm has been around since the 1920s, when Ontario-born Dr. Frederick Anson Keillor purchased the land and invited locals to his farm for hiking, bird watching, picnics, swimming, and of course, horse riding. During those early years Dr. Keillor, who served in WWI, also opened a ski club, four canoe clubs, and the Granite Curling Club , all in the vicinity, while moonlighting as a city coroner and manager at the South Edmonton Vet hospital. He late...