Conklin All-Canadian Shows 1942 #7

SAVE1108, originally uploaded by bucklesw1. Mac MacDonald trained these elephants for Bud Anderson in 1939. They had been imported by the Cole Show in 1937 but for some reason had grown up in ignorance. It was Mac's first job as a trainer so they more or less educated each other. My dad mentioned that the two elephants doing the cross mount always locked trunks, as seen above. Years later I asked Mac about that and he laughed saying, "Christ I almost forgot about that. I don't know what I was thinking!" Picture taken by Walter Tyson in Guelph, Ontario.