DCHP-3

canoe house

Hist.
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

1820
A canoe house is erected, open at the sides and floored or crossed by several timbers.
1900
Ordinarily, a Company's factory includes a store or trading-house, a fur house, a factor's house, a clerk's house, the canoe house, and the stable, with a barn.