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northern canoe
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a birchbark canoe 25 to 35 feet long, 5 to 6 feet wide, and 2 to 2 1/2 feet deep, capable of carrying some 1 1/2 to 2 tons of goods, a crew of 8 or 9, and 2 or 3 passengers, used primarily on the waterways north and west of Lake Superior.
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1938
The northern canoe carried a crew of five or six men, apart from passengers.
1954
Each northern canoe held twenty-five ninety-pound packs instead of the sixty loaded into the Montreal canoes . . . Even fewer packs were carried in the Athabaska canoes, so as to make better time on the four-thousand mile Rainy-Fort Chipewyan round trip between spring thaw and autumn freeze-up.