canoe brigade

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a convoy of canoes engaged in transporting trade goods to and furs from the inland trading posts.

See: brigade(def. 1)

Quotations

<i>c</i>1902

. . . the canoe brigades still bring the winter's hunt to the forts in the spring.

1960

Each summer, canoe brigades paddled furs from the interior to the mouth of the Saskatchewan river. . . .