grey wolf memorial
oil on drawer
$300

the great streetsborough hunt of 1819
..."The settlers in the townships around Streetsborough- Hudson on the west, Franklin (Kent) on the south and Aurora on the north- determined to have a big drive, surround the township and kill off all the wild animals. A committee was appointed to arrange matters, who marked off thirty or forty acres a little south of the center, where the old sawmill stood, into which the game was to be driven. The men from each township were to be on line of the township of streetsborough' next to them, at ten o'clock in the morning. The swamps were frozen, and there was about three inches of snow, and a good day for the hunt. Most of the regular hunters were opposed to the hunt, for the game was all their dependence, and I was one of them"...

..."then I began to hear the horns and bells in different directions, and to see the deer bounding along ahead of the men on the lines. When they came up I fell into the ranks and marched up to the ring or slaughter pen. When it was closed up there was the greatest sight I ever saw. There were over a hundred deer and a large number of bear and wolves. As they ran around the ring the guns cracked like battle. The deer came around like great flocks like a storm. It was a splendid sight to see so many deer with their large antlers. The hunters got together and when the droves came around would make a gap in the lines and let them out. They ran out in large flocks and then the gaps were closed up to keep in the bears and wolves. The firing was kept up till we thought they were all dead but one; he was wounded, and came hopping around the ring, eight or ten rods from the line, everybody yelling "Wolf, wolf, wolf," and firing a perfect storm of bullets. He was shot down before he reached us."

Recollections of an Old Settler by Christian Cackler -1874-

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