Ralph Page (well-known New England contra dance caller) published a newsletter called "Northern Junket", starting in 1949. The entire collection has been digitized (as images) at the University of New Hampshire.
There is at least one issue (Volume 6, Number 4, May 1958) devoted to French Canadian dance and music, and it includes La Cardeuse:
issue starts here.
La Cardeuse is here.
The issue contains music as well as dance instructions. The foreward says that this is the 2nd special issue devoted to Canadian dance - I haven't found the previous one (and don't know what area of Canada it covers) or whether there were subsequent issues - I'll poke around the site and post a followup if I find more Quebecois items.
The Northern Junket Home is here.
[Thanks, Brown]
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