People didn't just use horses for transportation; they also used them to haul goods to the market, and carry things. Horses were also used for entertainment in the winter time. They would pull sleighs, so people could have sleigh rides. Horses also pulled carriages.

For hard and heavy work, farmers used their draft horses. Draft horses were big and very strong. The owners of the farm looked after their horses and treated them like family. They would give their horses nice names, and names that were similar to their own. The family horse was usually included in the family picture. When names were written on the back, people couldn't tell the horse's name apart from the other family members'.

People who would have ordered goods would have included storekeepers, dressmakers and seamstresses, and people who needed items not usually sold in a regular store. Most of the goods were grown on the farms, came from other parts of PEI, from other parts of Canada or the US, or came from overseas. Goods that were brought in locally would have been farm goods, vegetables, fruit, breads, grains, baskets, hats, and baked goods. Some of the goods that would have been shipped in included tea, spices, china, glass, silk, and other things that weren't made or grown on Prince Edward Island.

This is a picture of a platform scale (at bottom right of catalog page). A platform scale is an object that people used in warehouses where things were shipped from. Platform scales were used to see how much an object weighed. People who worked in the shipping areas used them. You could buy them from Holman's Catalog.