Don Gee, of Virden was inducted into the Horseman Hall of Fame at the Saturday rodeo performance.
As a youngster, Gee rode horseback the 2.5 miles to school. He spent much time helping his father on the family farm, often driving the horses.
Later he drove a stook team during threshing time.
“He loved the jobs that involved horses rather than the tractor,” wrote Marge, wife of Don Gee.
She showed a percheron mare and colt in the Virden Fair in 1959 and in 1962 showed a team of Belgian mares.
In 1975, Gee got into the PMU industry, but he continued showing his Belgians around the country including the Toronto Royal Winter Fair in 1980. In 1991, he pulled, with six horses, the Brandon Exhibition Wagon in the Grey Cup Parade in Winnipeg.
In 1966, Gee placed second in the North American Belgian Show in the six-horse hitch Driving Competition.
Over the years, Gee, Who still lives on the farm, has continued to show horses; he still cuts up his own hay, winters horses and “keeps some colts over.”
2023 AWARD | Shawne Hagan |
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2022 AWARD | Faye and Daryl Horn |
2019 AWARD | Kim and Grant Gee |
2018 AWARD | Cathy Gerrand and Duncan Campbell |
2017 AWARD | Everett More |
2016 AWARD | Jim and Elaine Hyde |
2015 AWARD | Rick and Paddy White |
2014 AWARD | Doug Sexsmith |
2013 AWARD | Geraldine Fowler |
2012 AWARD | Morris Clarke |
2011 AWARD | Lyle Brown |
2010 AWARD | Darrell Nolan |
2009 AWARD | Sherald Joynt |
2007 AWARD | Donna Hunter |
2006 AWARD | Wilf Dryden / Murray Peel |
2005 AWARD | Betty Joseph / Don Gee |
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Don Brown | Bea Lowe | Wilf Van Loo |
Bob and Arlene Ross | Jack and Carol Forsyth | Betty Joseph |
Wilf Dryden | Donna Hunter | Darryl Nolan |
Orville Fowler | John Clarke | Bill and Pearl Brown |
Lloyd Robinson | Stu Taylor | George Sproat |
Ken Horn | Vern MacFarlane | Bill and Gail McQuaker |
Ed Page | Don and Marg Gee | Murray Peel |
Cecil Brown | Sherald Joynt | Lyle Brown |