Ads
related to: canadian dog sled
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The Chukotka Sled Dog (чукотская ездовая) is the aboriginal spitz breed of dog indigenous to the Chukchi people of Russia. Chukotka sled dog teams have been used since prehistoric times to pull sleds in harsh conditions, such as hunting sea mammals on oceanic pack ice. Chukotka sled dogs are most famous as the progenitor of the ...
The Canadian Eskimo Dog or Canadian Inuit Dog [2] is a breed of working dog from the Arctic.Other names include qimmiq [3] or qimmit [4] (Inuit language word for "dog"). The Greenland Dog is considered the same breed as the Canadian Eskimo Dog since they have not yet diverged enough genetically to be considered separate breeds, despite their geographic isolation.
Emile St. Godard (15 August 1905 - 26 March 1948) was a Canadian dog musher and dog sled racer from Winnipeg, Manitoba.He was a renowned musher in the 1920s and 1930s, with much of his fame derived from racing Leonard Seppala and his victory in the demonstration race at the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York.
Sled dog breeds love two things: cold weather and running. Well, they also love being part of a team. ... Canadian Eskimo Dog (Canadian Inuit Dog) James Gill - Danehouse/Getty Images. Height: 20 ...
The first sled dog race to feature a codified set of rules was the All-Alaska Sweepstakes, which first took place in 1908. This was followed in 1917 by the American Dog Derby, which was the first sled dog race outside Alaska or the Yukon. [1] In 1929 the Laconia World Championship Sled Dog Race" was first held in the city of Laconia, New Hampshire.
A musher riding a dog sled in Røros, Norway, during a sled dog race. A dog sled or dog sleigh [1] is a sled pulled by one or more sled dogs used to travel over ice and through snow, a practice known as mushing. Numerous types of sleds are used, depending on their function. They can be used for dog sled racing.
After watching my Canadian breed of dog, a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever, frolic in the snow, I realized that we’d probably been depriving my childhood dog, a similarly Canadian breed ...
Albert Campbell (17 April 1894 – 30 November 1961) was a French-Cree Canadian musher and trapper. He gained popularity as a Canadian "national hero" after winning the 1917 Red River Derby sled dog race.