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maître canot
Cdn French, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a large freight canoe, measuring about 40 feet and capable of carrying 4 to 5 tons, used for the voyage from Montreal to the Grand Portage. [See picture at Montreal canoe.]
Quotations
1791
Having . . . exchanged my large canoes, or maitre canots, for smaller ones . . . we proceeded to the Falls of St. Mary.
1836
Both our maitre-canôt, and the other, which was of smaller dimensions, were rather lumbered than loaded.