immigrant car

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a railway car carrying immigrants, as on an immigrant train.

Quotations

1883

The regular train west yesterday had a new immigrant coach attached, crowded with immigrants for the west.

1935

. . . they travelled west from Winnipeg in an immigrant car.

1959

The immigration department recently ordered out of its immigrant coaches the vice-president of a German-Canadian club in Toronto. . . .