A Canadian Family

Little Fox River or Petite Riviere au Renard, Gaspe (Quebec)

This detail of the beach at Riviere-au-Renard is quite grainy but it does allows you to see some of the fishing equipment of that time. Note the wooden tables which were probably used in much the same way as we see in the Marinage du Poisson postcard that I posted a few days ago.

A note on the back shows that tourists really enjoyed visiting the Gaspe region: “Dear Mother, Well you see we are around this far and are enjoying the best part of our trip so far. Lovely scenery and very quaint villages. Chas” The card was sent to a Mrs. M. Mc?ady in Winnipeg and appears to be postdated 1938.

For those of you unfamiliar with the Gaspe – it is a LARGE peninsula in northern Quebec. This tourist must have begun his trip on the western side (bordered by the St-Lawrence River) and had now crossed over at the top to reach Little Fox River. You can see from John Rapkin’s map of 1857, that Little Fox River was at the northernmost tip of the Gaspe – truly remote – Our tourist of 1938 probably did the same thing as our tourists of 2008 – he probably continued his trip down the eastern side of the Gaspe Peninsula which would have brought him alongside one of the richest fishing areas in the world – the Baie des Chaleurs. Read more »

February 13, 2009 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | fishing, Gaspe, postcards, Quebec, Work | 3 Comments