Edgar Milligan & George Morrison
Edgar Milligan & George Morrison met and joined forces in 1914. Shortly after that they moved their partnership to Northam Prince Edward Island and established the Milligan and Morrison Company.Morrison brought to the partnership a wealth of knowledge and experience in breeding Alaskan foxes. The two sold no live pairs during this time from 1914 and 1920 but they instead focused their energies on building up there breeding stock, so by 1920 they had 100 pair of the finest breeding stock anywhere in the world.
It is said that most of there success was due largely to Edgar Milligan for he was primarily responsible to supervise all breeding and selection at the ranch. After they had perfected there breeding stock they set out to set up fox farms in other locations much like a chain store. Soon they had branches in Illinois, Denver, and Idaho, and there company was attracting international attention.
In 1926 the Milligan and Morrison Co. shipped the largest and most valuable shipment of live silver foxes to the United Stated. They shipped 855 foxes that were valued at $796,000.00!
As well as fox farming Milligan and Morrison established one of the most modern and sophisticated dairy farms anywhere. In 1925 they opened a huge barn at Northam and a crowd of about 7,000 people were in attendance to view champion livestock exhibitions and to enjoy the day's entertainment.
Then in 1931 they opened a magnificent oval, horse race track and began the first night racing ever attempted in eastern Canada.
The careers of Edgar Milligan and George Morrison came to a tragic conclusion on September 1st 1933 when both men were killed in a car accident in Buffalo, NY on there way to the fourth Annual Silver Fox School at Woodstock, Ill.