An old-time staple - tinned dog - but not really

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When I was young, and my father and brother took their lunch with them to work in the paddocks, a staple ingredient of their sandwiches would be what was colloquially known as ‘tinned dog’. This was a slang term used in the late 19th and early 20th centuries for tinned/canned meat of some kind. Australians do not eat dog, just in case you're confused. When we travelled through the goldfield areas a few years ago, a short walk off the beaten track yielded a number of rusted cans, all of which had held meat of some kind. Old sardine cans were also common. Coolgardie and Kalgoorlie were the two largest towns in the goldfield area with the former referred to in one newspaper article as ‘Tinned Dog city’. The photo is of the 'Super Pit', a large open-pit goldmine in Kalgoorlie.