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lumber camp

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.

See: logging(def. 2),logging camp,lumbering

See note at lumbering (def. 1).

Quotations

1872

Our stock of provisions again becoming small, I sent off . . . to a lumber camp distant about thirty miles.

1903

After a long hard winter working as a cook in a lumber camp I struck for Peace River country where I now am, knocking life out to keep life in.

1963

Here [in New Brunswick] developed the river drive of the squared timber and the masts down the river, the lumber camp, the lumberjack. . . . [See Main John for full quote.]