league

[< Cdn F < OF ligue; cf. F lieue]

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1933 quote.

Quotations

1765-78

. . . St. Peters River . . . was a Hundred Leags up the River. . . .

1793

From the long Sault we have twenty leagues of still water to navigate.

1933

David Thompson found that the "league" of the canoemen averaged about two miles in length.