A Canadian Family

An Ox Cart in Rural Quebec- WWII on the Back of a Postcard

This vintage postcard shows a typical Quebec rural farming scene with a young farmboy accompanying an ox and cart. You can see other handmade carts with the same distinctive wheels at  - A Habitant Dog Cart and  A roadside Group on Gaspe Highway.

Reverse of Postcard – Text

To: Billie Hours(?), Washington Ave., Babylon L.I., New York

Dear Billie,

How’d you like to have one of these animals to play around with at home. Grand Ma & me are having a swell time just looking around Old Quebec. Lots of love to all Grand Pop.

Reverse of Postcard -A little bit of  philately

The 1942 postmark shows that this postcard was mailed right in the heat of WWII. The King George VI stamp was part of a special War Issue of morale-boosting stamps. One series showed King George VI in the uniforms of different branches of the Armed Forces while others depicted war technology and other types of Canadian production that supported the Allied effort. Read more »

September 20, 2009 Posted by Evelyn Yvonne Theriault | . | King George, philately, postal cancellation, postcard, war effort | 1 Comment