A Canadian Family

A Festival of Postcards – Wheels

This coloured vintage postcard depicts a traditional French-Canadian family sitting on their porch with what was undoubtedly one of the most important wheels in pioneer times – the spinning wheel. In Quebec – as in much of North America – early pioneer families wore mostly homemade clothes which they made out of their own homespun cloth.

We know this was a pioneer family because of the text on the front of the card – “Une Famille de colons, Quebec, Canada” which translates as “A Family of Quebec Colonists”.  Some readers may not know this but northern Quebec – and especially the Gaspe – was still considered a new area of colonization in the early twentieth century.

Size of postcard: approx. 13.5 c.m x 8.5 cm.

Front Text: Country Family, Quebec, Canada. Une famille de Colons, Quebec, Canada    60-7

Description: Traditional house, clothing, furniture, spinning wheel, chairs, clothing, family

Publisher: The Postcard & Greeting Card Co. Ltd., Toronto

Back: Postcard, Canada Series, Made in Canada, s….s is a gurantee of Canadian Manufacturing

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May 14, 2009 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | French Canadian, postcard, postcards, Quebec | 16 Comments