DCHP-3

Bain wagon

[prob. after the maker-designer]
Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large freight wagon that was widely used in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Quotations

1897
Largest stock in the province and best assortment American Bain wagons, also Canadian Bain suitable for freighting and farm purposes.
1934
Every few miles we would overtake strings of heavily laden Bain wagons hauled by horses, mules, or even oxen. . . .
1955
And from the north, east, west, and south, by horse and buggy, by democrat, in Bain wagons pulled by oxen, on horseback and on Shanks' mare, thousands of people flocked into the city.