This is the story of a
person, T. B. Macaulay (1860-
1942), an animal, Johanna Rag
Apple Pabst “Old Joe” (1921-
1933), and a place, Mount
Victoria Farm, Hudson
Heights, Quebec.
T. B. Macaulay, President
of Sun Life Company from 1915
to 1934, bought Mount
| Victoria Farm in 1900. It was
simply a country home and
hobby farm until the 1920s
when Macaulay bought “Old
Joe,” a prize-winning
Holstein bull, and six pure-
bred Holstein cows. By
applying the principles of
genetics, which guided his
actuarial tables at Sun Life,
| Macaulay was able to create
an excellent herd. Members of
this herd, which was
dispersed upon his death in
1942, are the ancestors of
most pure-bred Holstein
cattle in the world today.
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