DCHP-3

canot bâtard

Cdn French
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a birchbark canoe about 30 feet long and capable of carrying two tons of freight in addition to its ten-man crew.

Quotations

1952
The largest at York, and a rarity there, being used only for heavy cargoes upon wide open waters, was the canot bâtard: the bastard canoe--which seemed to me an enormous craft for one so fragile. It measured thirty to thirty-two feet in length and was capable of carrying two ton in addition to its crew of ten.