Prince Edward Island was the origin point for the North American fox farming industry, and it was also home to two Canadian research stations that published materials on fox farming practices.
The first of these research stations was the Fox Research Station, Charlottetown, PEI, which was run at one time by J.A. Allen, V.S. B.V.Sc., Animal Pathologist in Charge. Dr. Allen was credited by the U.S. Silver Fox Farms company as one of the co-developers of the panopticon fox farm design, along with a “Dr. Church” of Summerside and the U.S. Fur Animal Experiment Station in NY.
The second was the Experimental Fox Ranch (opened in 1925?), Summerside, PEI, run by G. Ennis Smith, B.A.Sc., Superintendent. Smith was previously Biochemist in Charge of Fox Research Work, Research Station, Hull, Quebec. The Experimental Fox Ranch is sometimes called the “Dominion” Experimental Fox Ranch in marketing, presumably after the Dominion of Canada.
The farm layout of the Summerside station is fascinating and very prison-like, but also clearly not a panopticon in the same sense as the U.S. Silver Fox Farms layouts.
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