Interesting, I'm not sure the Algonquin Park Alligator is fake, it may well have been a working boat, and they were designed to propel themselves over the portages, so it's not terribly out of place on land. My son ran the Birthday Game at the Exhibition for a couple of years, the owner of the game offered to give it to him. Somewhere I have a picture of him doing his banter into the microphone. He made a lot of money working that game. After he became an iron and high steel worker in Alberta, he still took two weeks off when the fair came to Edmonton. He could make more in two weeks running the birthday game than he could as a high steel worker on the oil sands.He ran it at fairs all over North America, from Alabama to Edmonton to the Bahamas during his 2 years as a Carny. I also have pictures of that Algonquin Park fake horse.
My trip to the logging museum, with both the Alligator and the fake horse.
http://s1132.photobucket.com/user/Norm_Head/slideshow/Trips-to-POIs/Algonqui...-museum?sort=3
Towards the end of the sideshow there is a fake horse team drawing a fake plough. The horses are fake, the plough real.