Saving the Sable Island Ponies
Sable Island, off the coast of Nova Scotia, is home to a unique breed of wild horses. In 1959, the federal government decided that winter-feeding the horses was too expensive. When newspapers reported that the ponies would be removed and sent to coal mines and glue factories, thousands of schoolchildren from all across Canada wrote to the Prime Minister. Diefenbaker was moved and amended legislation to formally protect the horses. To this day, the ponies remain on what is now the Sable Island National Park Reserve.
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