DCHP-3

canoe barn

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a building for sheltering, making, repairing, and storing canoes, one of the essentials of many fur-trade posts.

Quotations

1933
He could see Pecuchie . . . sitting at his ease on the ground near the canoe barn, while his squaws now brought under his firm gaze, sewed with watappe in a quiet, improving fashion.