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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a sturdy small boat long used in crossing the St. Lawrence in winter, its trained crew propelling it, often loaded with freight and passengers, through swift currents choked with ice-cakes and manhandling it over the sharp, uneven ice banks, or bourdigneaux.
Quotations
1958
Separate races are run for "professional" and "amateur" ice canoe enthusiasts.
1959
Ice canoes have been crossing the deep channel that separates the nine-mile-long island from the mainland for more than 200 winters.