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freighter canoe
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a large canoe (from 20 to 30 feet long), used for transporting goods, especially in the North.
See: freight canoe
Quotations
1942
In the big twenty-six-foot freighter canoe, with the old outboard motor attached, we would go over to the Sound where the ice floe was thickest and there find netchek, the hair seal, sporting among and resting on the ice blocks.
1963
The [James Bay] trip they made without a guide, using their own freighter canoe and camping on the shores of the bay.