DCHP-3

camboose camp

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.

See: camboose(def. 3),logging(def. 2),shanty ((n.))(def. 2)

Quotations

1947
These shanties were built with a "camboose" in the centre, and came to be known as camboose camps.
1961
Associated with this museum is the Algonquin Provincial Park Logging Exhibit . . . [which] includes a full-size replica of a logging shanty or "camboose camp". . . .
2

a logging camp.

See: camboose(def. 4),logging camp,shanty ((n.))(def. 3a)

Quotations

1947
The author . . . has been at pains to describe minutely life in the camboose camps of the lumbering days. . . .
1964
In the fall the teams would move up the line toward the limits where the camboose camp was being built for the winter.