DCHP-3

Northwest cart

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sturdy two-wheeled cart constructed entirely of wood, the parts being fixed by wooden pins and lashed with shaganappi (def. 1); the wheels were some five feet in diameter and about three inches broad at the rim; the axle carried a simple box equipped with a railing for carrying the load, about 1,000 pounds. As a rule, the carts travelled in trains or brigades and the ungreased wheels gave forth ear-piercing shrieks and squeals which could be heard for miles across the prairie.

Quotations

1890
Two official languages [would be] "as useless as two tongues on a North-West cart." And yet the vehicle in question requires two tongues just as much as the Governmental Machine of the Territories does.