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Upper Lakes
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Obs.
Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior.
See: Great Lakes
This early usage may have resulted from considering these lakes in relation to the St. Lawrence River and Lake Champlain.
Quotations
1780
Mr Cornwall late Master Builder on the upper lakes came [as a] Passenger in the Vessel . . . Fn. Cornwall was master builder of ships on Lake Ontario.
1803
Both the North-West Companies (Old North-West Co. and X Y Company. Ed.) have vessels in the Upper Lakes (neither of them on Ontario). . . .
2
Lakes Huron and Superior, and, sometimes, Michigan, the most northerly of the Great Lakes.
Quotations
1850
Although it will be described in the Appendix, I may here advert to the singular fact that all the superfluous waters of the great upper lakes pass through it, while in one place it is only 115 yards broad.
1959
Upper Lakes Shipping hopes to have a new bulker, Seaway Queen, on hand after her maiden trip to the Upper Lakes for ore.