The Shop

Welcome to the heart of our business.
You know the old saying, "They don't make 'em like they used to?" This rings very true for us with some of our tools of the trade. Most of the hand tools and machinery we use today are 100 years old or better, some coming out of retirement from antique collections. This is also how we are able to achieve the very high quality and longevity of all our handcrafted products, the same high quality that you expect in your Antiques today.

The proprietor, Richard Mocon, has been a saddle and harness maker by trade for more than 40 years, and drawing on this experience is able to produce or repair most anything made of leather, vinyl, nylon or canvas.

In this photo, we have used a standard shirt pattern and a light deerskin to produce a very light but durable garment. These can be made any size, with pockets or without and the suede leather turned anywhere for a nice contrast. This deerskin shirt may also have a variety of different fasteners on the front, bone buttons, domes, antler slices or brass buttons. This shirt comes with antler slices buttons, a suede yolk line on the front and back, and has one pocket on the chest.

We not only manufacture most of the leather products in the store, but we also repair a vast array of things that are not listed. To give you some idea....items we make and/or repair:

For any questions or prices, please Email or phone us.

The Showroom

Our 5200 sq.ft. showroom is chocked full of Canadian Handcrafts. We carry a wide and varied selection of authentic Native crafts from across Canada, from British Columbia to the East Coast. We have beadwork from Churchill Manitoba, soapstone carvings from Eskimos in the Northwest Territories and from the Six Nations Reserve in Brantford Ontario. Our quilts come from New Brunswick, sheepskin slippers and moccasins from Quebec and the war shields and dreamcatchers are made in Ontario. These are only a few examples from the extensive area we cover to obtain authentic Canadian and native made handcrafts.

Much of our inventory changes from season to season, so if you are interested in a particular item, please ask as we may have something close to it, or be able to find it for you. Once again, things change quite frequently and the list is quite varied. Here we will try to give you some idea as to the content we carry in the showroom part of our shop.

Step into the Past

Experience a Store like no other with a visit to High Spring Trading Post, and don't forget your camera! Outside our shop is likened to walking down the boardwalk porch of an original Frontier Town in the early 1800's. Each store front is done to the old style stores you would have found in a Frontier Town of that era. It's complete with a Saloon, Mercantile, Barber Shop and Jail to the Ladies of the Evening hanging over the balcony of Big Lizzies. Not forgetting the all-important Undertaker and Used Clothing store, you can shop for some slightly used clothing with the odd bullet hole and black powder stain. Don't forget to visit Boot Hill, our local grave site which is home to some notorious outlaws of the old west, they'd be happy you dropped by. Right next door is the beautiful Indian Village complete with several large painted Tee Pee's and 40-ft Wooden Totem Poles. At the front gate as you come in you will also pass Old Fort Ricjo, complete with towers and a horse drawn canon.
As you enter our 5200sq foot showroom, don't be surprised to be greeted by our live talking crow, Peter. Peter came to us injured and nearly blind 12 years ago from a local zoo. As you can see in the photo he is loose to do as he pleases and talk to anyone who will listen. He may say "Hello", "Pick up that pail", "So what!", "Scotty", and "Bad fellow", to you, and if you tell him a good joke he will even chuckle at it.
A big "Howdy" awaits you from our family as we're always looking for an excuse to stop work and chat to all who enter our store. You may also view the leather products being made in the work shop area of the store. We take custom orders from all over the world for all types of things made of leather, from pig harness to equipment for dogs, cats and horses to all types of leather clothing for humans. We are also constantly doing repairs to a wide variety of leather, canvas and nylon items. So stop by and say hi, we'd love to have ya!

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For more information or prices please contact us, as the availability of some items will vary with our costs of the raw material. Also, custom designs and sizing will also effect our pricing. In most cases we may have a photo to email or mail to you of your request or something close to it.

Mailing Address: General Delivery, R.R. 2 Marmora, Ontario K0K 2M0 Canada	Location: South Side Hwy. 7..10 km. E. of Havelock, Ontario K0L 1Z0 Canada
Telephone: (705) 778-3760 Fax: (705) 778-3760 (9am - 5pm) Email: info@highspringtradingpost.com