DCHP-2
French pony Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a breed of sturdy, black draught horse developed in Quebec from stock brought to Canada by early French settlers
See also: Canadian horse
- 1871 In those days the land carriage between Quebec and Montreal was only on horse back or by Calashe drawn by compact French Ponies with Jean Baptiste on the box, with pipe, as driver.
- 1913 . . . Jean Jacques worked "like a little French pony," as they say in Canada of every man with the courage to do hard things in him....
- 1871 In those days the land carriage between Quebec and Montreal was only on horse back or by Calashe drawn by compact French Ponies with Jean Baptiste on the box, with pipe, as driver.