DCHP-3

caribou barrens

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a tract of low-lying peat bog at one time frequented by caribou; savanna.

Quotations

1855
Situated in the heart of the forest, and surrounded by the woods as by a wall, lie these little plains, covered with a soft and often swampy carpeting of mosses and lichens, which from their being the favourite feeding grounds of the American rein-deer, have obtained the name of Carriboo Barrens, or Bogs.
1920
All along the route of the Railway are . . . Caribou barrens.