Keith Boswall

Prince Edward Island

The Province of Prince Edward Island has long been noted for the excellence of its livestock and for its competent and knowledgeable live- stock breeders whose contributions, down through the years, have meant so much to the purebred livestock industry, and to the agricultural economy of Canada's Atlantic Provinces.

Such a stockman was the late Mr. Keith Boswall of Victoria, P.E.I., a native son whose Lealands Ayrshire herd was regarded as one of the best herds of Ayrshire cattle in Eastern Canada, and which herd contributed so many outstanding home-bred animals which other breeders, from coast to coast, acquired and used to improve the bloodlines, the production records, and the show-ring qualifications of their herds.

One of these animals was Lealands Royal Margaret, an excellent cow with B.C.A.'s of 155 and 145, which had the distinction not only of winning a Grand Championship at the Atlantic Winter Fair but, also, the Grand Championship at the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair - no mean accomplishment this, in what is regarded as the Premier Ayrshire Show on the North American Continent.

Mr. Boswall was a staunch champion of agricultural exhibitions, not only those on his native P .E .1., where his herd entries amassed a large collection of show ribbons but, also, of the Maritime Winter Fair, and at the Royal Winter Fair, where Lealands Ayrshires provided the keenest of competition and collected so many show honours and awards.