Vintage Postcards: Dog Cart, Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, Quebec
Menuisiers Allant A L’Ouvrage
Ste Anne de Beaupre, Que
English translation: Carpenters (or cabinetmakers) Going To Work Read more »
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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Another vintage postcard from a series of postcards about the Working Dogs of the Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec.

Close-up detail of dog harness

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


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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 »
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.

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.

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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