Saw Canada By Horse

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 2

Saw Canada By Horse

I.V Z P A -Reuter—Copyright) HALIFAX (Canada). Two British Columbia women arrived in Halifax, after a 5000-mile horseback: ride across Canada from coast 1 to coast. Helen Alwood, aged 29, of Port Alberni, and Joyce Myhon, 33, of Prince George, | said they hoped to sell their j horses and make the return j trip by car. They ruled out the possibil-j tty of extending the horse-j back ride to Newfoundland; because of the approach of j cold weather. The trip took six months. It was not the first time the [ country had been crossed by; women on hoseback. Mrs Mary Bosanquet, of Devizes, England, did it during the Second World War, but it took considerably longer. She started in 1941 and went from east to west, working' her way across in two years| and rode several horses. She later wrote a book on the trip. Miss Myhon and Miss Alwood said they would travel south along the eastern seaboard by car, go across the southern United States and north along the west coast on I the homeward trip.