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1n. — Fur Trade, Hist.
a fleet of canoes, bateaux, or York boats carrying trade goods, supplies, and furs to and from the inland posts of the fur companies.
Quotations
1761
To each canoe there are eight men; and to every three or four canoes, which constitute a brigade, there is a guide or conductor.
1815
They usually get out in brigades like the bateaux, and in the course of the summer upwards of fifty of these vessels are thus dispatched.
1941
A canoe brigade still connects Senneterre post on the C.N.R. . . .
1963
Each June, in brigades of 34-foot [York] boats, Lower Fort Garry despatched its trade goods and its men.
2n. — Fur Trade, Hist.
a train of Red River carts, pack horses, dog sleds, etc. employed by the fur companies in transporting trade goods, supplies, and furs overland.
See: fur brigade
Quotations
1863
The Hudson Bay Company's monster brigade of carts from Fort Abercrombie arrived here safely last week.
1929
After the last of these trains had departed, a brigade of sixty horse-sleds and thirty dog-trains was sent to the Beaver Hills to haul in three hundred buffalo cows previously killed and staged out of the reach of predatory animals.
1958
The term "Brigade" . . . applied to . . . pack horses travelling over the rolling hills of the Interior [of B.C.]. . . .
1967
As a brigade included several hundred horses, the post was a scene of great activity during arrivals and departures
3n. — Obs.
a train of wagons; a fleet of bateaux employed in freighting merchandise.
Quotations
1812
We understand that a strong brigade consisting of about 2,000 hogs, arrived on Thursday . . . to be slaughtered.
1822 [1821]
The supposed Indians were no other than the crew of a brigade of batteaux. . .
4n.
a number of canoes on a canoe trip, especially when following the historic routes of the early explorers and voyageurs.
Quotations
1958
Simon Fraser . . . lacked some of the hazards the Fraser brigade faces in its reenactment of that trip. The brigade, 10 men in three canoes headed by veteran riverman Dick Corless of Prince George, now is camped near Lillooet, B.C. . . .
5n.
a cat-train, especially one taking supplies to and furs from northern posts of the Hudson's Bay Co.
See: cat-train
Quotations
1958
The tractor brigades started operating out of Grimshaw for the far north.