![]() Deep River Fur Farm
Please Note:
Deep River Fur Farm ceased operations some 60 years ago. This web site is a collection of memories and stories from the past. Please do not submit requests for employment, purchase of fur animals, or advice on fur farming.
An aerial view of Deep River Fur Farm. Photograph was taken in the late 1960s-70s.
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From humble beginnings (left) First buildings at Deep River 1925-26 (right)
Mrs. Ausland and daughter Marge (centre). ![]() ![]()
New log house at Deep River left and right.
Mr. and Mrs. Ausland and children, employee. ![]() Ausland Girls (L-R) Mary, Irene, Ann, Marge, Mrs Ausland is standing in the doorway photograph was taken in the late early 1930s. ![]() ![]()
First mink in 1929 (left).
Mink pens in the late 1930s. ![]() Mink and Fox pens, Ann (left) and Marge Ausland in foreground. ![]() ![]() Mink ranch in the early and mid 1940s. ![]() ![]() Mink sheds in the mid 1950s (left) Mink sheds in 1943 (right) In the foreground, on the right, Rene Massery and Celestine Mccallum unloading hay for mink bedding. ![]() ![]()
Mink waiting to be fed 1950s.
A view of Deep River in the 1950s. ![]() ![]() Mink sheds in the late 1950s. Mink sheds in the late 1960s. ![]() ![]() Orange mink, this strain of mink was developed by Halvor Ausland from this one natural wild mutation mink. This mink was caught by a trapper and sold to Mr. Ausland in the early 1950s. Halvor Ausland holding the same mink in the 1950s. (right) ![]() ![]() Orange mink on left - Feeding mink on right. ![]() ![]() ![]() White and black cross mink. ![]() ![]() Silver foxes. ![]() ![]() Platinum foxes. ![]() ![]() ![]() Rene Massery with mink ready for pelting. (right) Halvor Ausland holding mink pelts in the 1940s. (center) Platinum fox (left). ![]() Mary (left) and Marge Ausland at Deep River late 1940s. ![]() (L-R) Mary, Marjorie, Halvor and Ann Ausland, in the garden at Deep River, Circa 1943. ![]() Dawn at Deep River ![]() Location of Deep River Fur Farm, now overgrown with trees. If you passed within a few feet of the location you would never know it had ever existed. Photograph was taken in July 1996. ![]() A view of Deep River as it looked in July of 1996.
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