Mule shoe

"40 acres and a mule" is known historically as a failed promise to the formerly enslaved.

This mule shoe was plowed up on the former property of Rolla Ramsey Jr., who succeeded his father as the second postmaster of Breton (formerly Keystone), Alberta. Ramsey Jr. was known to have used mules on his homestead. In 1915, he married Ophelia Hayes, the paternal aunt to Vant Hayes, one of the descendants of the Black 1000 from Oklahoma featured in the exhibition.

Collection of the Breton and District Historical Museum, Alberta, Canada.