Two figures bend to work beside a wagon wheel amid a sprawling split-rail fence — the very type of zig-zag cedar fence that has defined the pastoral landscape of Manitoulin Island for generations — in this vigorous pen-and-ink artist's postcard capturing the island's agricultural soul. Manitoulin, the world's largest freshwater island, was settled by farming families in the mid-19th century after treaties opened it to non-Indigenous settlement; the back notes that the island holds the world's largest single-day cattle sale each last Thursday of September, a fact that grounds this bucolic scene in a living rural economy rather than mere nostalgia. Bare trees frame a gambrel-roofed barn in the background, the whole rendered in the energetic, slightly rough linework that characterizes this series. Published by Stonehouse Publications Limited, Fonthill, Ontario, and retailed through Espanola Pharmacy — a companion card to the Little Current harbour view from the same Donna E. Rouse series.