The Bolton family immigrated to Canada from England in the early 1800s. They settled on a farm just outside of Peterborough on the Trent Ridge overlooking the Otonabee River. Over the years the Bolton Family grew and started to purchase farms along the river between Nassau Mills and Lakefield. They were a mixed farming family as most family farms were during that period raising both beef and dairy cattle. The original farm was the main stable quarters for the men and horses that were employed to build the Trent Canal just down the road from the original homestead. The canal was dug from Nassau Mills to the current site of the Peterborough Liftlocks using horses pulling a one yard scrapper and a man to drive the horses and run the scrapper. Most of the Bolton family worked on this project in the early 1900s. The pay was one dollar per day for the man and one dollar per day for the horse. In the early 1950s my father and his brother started a bus company off the family farm just up river from the original homestead. A bus garage was eventually built at the end of the farm gate overlooking the river. The bus company over the years grew to be on of the largest bus companies in Canada.

The original Bolton homestead was expropriated in 1969 and is now known as the East Bank of Trent University. Trent Ridge Farms is the most northerly farm of the Bolton Family still located on the same ridge as the original homestead overlooking the river. We still cut hay, grow corn, and mixed grain from the farms that were settled in the early 1800s along the banks of the river. We are starting to produce same amazing purebred Red Angus cattle the same way my ancestors did almost 200 years ago. Our program is simple; we feed the best possible feed we can grow. We follow a strict vaccination protocol. We keep only the best cattle using dominant genetics to continue on in our breeding program. We raise our cattle on open pasture and allow then to calve in the cedar woods on our farm. We believe this way we will produce some of the strongest, healthiest Red Angus Cattle. We like medium framed mothers that produce middle to low birth weights and we always look for lots of milk. We want our cattle to be deep thick and long that are mild tempered and calve easy. Give us a call or drop by anytime to see some of the greatest Red Angus Cattle born and raised on the Great Trent Ridge.