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lumber-woods
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
timberlands.
Quotations
1896
"Three winters ago, as some of you will remember, Stranion and I took a month in the lumber-woods. . . ."
1927
He . . . had driven oxen, cut and hauled cordwood . . . teamed in the lumber woods, hauled logs to the lake front and the mill, fired in the Cobourg tannery, and attended Victoria College.
1960
The verses probably date from about 1890, when a railway was being built through the northern lumberwoods from Ottawa to Parry Sound.