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Vintage Postcards: Dog Cart, Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, Quebec

Menuisiers Allant A L’Ouvrage

Ste Anne de Beaupre, Que

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English translation: Carpenters (or cabinetmakers) Going To Work Read more »

July 30, 2009 Posted by | . | , , , , | 24 Comments

Vintage Postcard: Dog Cart (racing sulky), Quebec (4)

Un Attelage de Chien a Quebec, Canada  - A Dog Cart, Quebec, Canada n.101

From the way the driver is dressed – as a jockey I believe – I think this is a dog racing sulky.

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Index: Vintage Postcards of Quebec

May 28, 2009 Posted by | . | , , , , | 19 Comments

Vintage Postcards: Old Fashion Transport, Quebec, Canada

Another vintage postcard from a series of postcards about the Working Dogs of the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec.

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                  Close-up detail of dog harness

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May 6, 2009 Posted by | . | , , , | 2 Comments

Vintage Postcard: A “modern” dog cart in the Gaspe

A Gaspe (Quebec, Canada)  farm scene: Children, traditional dog cart and machinery.

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Vintage Postcards: A Gaspesian Dog Cart at St. Anne des Monts, P.Q.

April 9, 2009 Posted by | . | , , , | 15 Comments

Encore! | Vintage Postcard: An Eskimo Family, Greenland

Postcard: An Eskimo Family, Greenland

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Transcript: Text on back of card

AN ESKIMO FAMILY, GREENLAND – This race of people are considered one of the most hardiest of the human family. They get their subsistence from hunting by sea, using for the purpose skin-boats where the sea is open, and dog sledges on the ice. From the skin, blubber and flesh of the seal and the cetaceous Read more »

April 2, 2009 Posted by | . | , , , , | 12 Comments

Vintage Postcards: A roadside Group on Gaspe Highway, P.Q. (3)

Number 3 of a ten-part series of postcards about the Working Dogs of the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec.

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March 10, 2009 Posted by | . | , , | 2 Comments

Vintage Postcard: A Habitant Dog Cart on Gaspe Coast, P.Q. (2)

Number 2 of a ten-part series of postcards about Working Dogs of the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec.

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I find Gaspe dog-carts fascinating not only because of their novelty (to me) but also because there’s a variety of designs and those depicted in my old postcards seem to be hand-crafted and perhaps even home-made.

These dogcarts are a ture testament to our ancestors’ ingenuity!

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PORTAL – Vintage Postcards
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February 27, 2009 Posted by | . | , , | 13 Comments

Vintage Postcards: A Gaspesian Dog Cart at St. Anne des Monts, P.Q. (1)

 

Number 1 of a ten-part series of postcards about the Working Dogs of the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec.

Property - A Canadian Family Vintage Postcard Collection

 

 

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Index: Vintage Postcards of Quebec 

February 20, 2009 Posted by | . | , , , | 6 Comments

   

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