DCHP-3

caribou bog

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. Obs.

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

Quotations

1850
It rises very gently . . . till it reaches an immense bog--called in these provinces a Carriboo bog or Cariboo plain--which is the water-shed from which flow both the Cornwallis river and that of Annapolis.