canoles

Updated: June 18, 2025

Formerly their wives and mothers had to do this heavy work, but now Christianity has relegated this and many other heavy duties to the dogs. However, the greatest and most arduous work to which the dogs are put is that of drawing the canoles and dog-sleds of travellers and tourists or fur traders for long distances through various parts of that great northern land.

Egerton Ryerson Young - Winter Adventures of Three Boys