DCHP-3

canoe shed

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

1921
On their way to the Indian shop they passed the canoe shed, where skilled hands were finishing two handsome six-fathom canoes for the use of the Fur Brigade.
1953
. . . the old birch freighting canoes were still in the canoe sheds. . . .