DCHP-3

Athabasca boat

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an especially light, fast canoe used by the fur traders in the Athabasca country.

Quotations

1824
Resolved . . . that five canoes containing 115 pieces manned by twenty-six men form part of the current outfit and that the remaining pieces be carried in on freight by the six Athabasca boats.
1954
Each northern canoe held twenty-five ninety-pound packs instead of the sixty loaded into the Montreal canoes [and] fewer packs were carried in the Athabasca canoes, so as to make better time on the four-thousand-mile Rainy-Fort Chipewyan round trip between spring thaw and autumn freeze-up.