DCHP-3

boat encampment

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a point at the head of navigable water on a river; specifically, the head of navigation of the Columbia River, where it meets the Canoe River.

Quotations

1827
We had the satisfaction of landing at the boat encampment at the base of the Rocky Mountains.
1827
Two of our Iroquois . . . carried snow shoes from the Boat Encampment. . . .
1859
In March . . . the express . . . started from Edmonton . . . and continued on to the boat encampment. . . .
1963
Farther south, a route from . . . the Athabasca River led up a feeder stream . . . to join the Columbia River at the northernmost point of the Big Bend at Boat Encampment.