DCHP-3

log camp

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.

Quotations

1888
Near here is the oldest log-camp in the Mountains, where a Government engineering party, under Mr. Walter Moberly, C.E., spent the winter of 1871.
1919
As every real lumberjack knows, this element is almost impossible to organize, being for the most part homesteaders on the prairies in summer, and they go to short log camps in B.C. during the winter.