boatman

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a voyageur, especially a man working with the boat brigades of the fur companies.

Quotations

1816

Having procured two experienced boatmen, with a bark canoe, I ascended the St. Maurice. . . .

1898

Indians and halfbreeds make first rate Boatmen [on York Boats].

1956

Colin Robertson preferred Iroquois boatmen to any other. . . .