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pemmican boat

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a boat carrying pemmican (def. 1) and other supplies to a trading post.

See: pemmican(def. 1)

Quotations

1820

I have therefore to request the favor of your sending to Isle a la Crosse by the Pemican Canoes the undermentioned skins and sinews, vizt.: 7 50 lbs. Sinews, and a quantity of Shaganapy lines.

1821

Perhaps you will be able to resolve this point by the return of Mr. Oxley or by the Pemmican Canoe in Spring.

1929

The pemmican boats, to which Simpson refers, reached Cumberland House on June 2, and the expedition under the command of the clerk Fraser proceeded northward to Methye Portage.

1963

Macdonell had . . . planted his battery in 1814 to block the pemmican-boats on the Assiniboine.