On an immense lawn in front of his farm home near Goderich,
Ontario, Canada, farmer Clayton Laithwaite has created an amusing
tourist attraction, purely as a hobby.
Over the years, he has constructed life-sized figures from
cement and stone representing a variety of well-known historical
and mythical characters.
These figures are placed in different spots in his garden, some
of them painted, and, in all there are about 20 which have been
there for many years and have become a magnet for visiting
tourists.
Inside the fieldstone gates you will find Canada’s first
prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald, driving an old-style iron
plough. Other sculptures include Adam and Eve being driven from the
Garden of Eden by an angel with a flaming sword, a full-size Indian
teepee with Indians, a large team of oxen.
The location of this unusual tourist attraction is on Highway 8,
about two miles south of Goderich.
