DCHP-3

plank sidewalk

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sidewalk built of planks; a boardwalk.

Quotations

1844
The first mile of Macadamized road ever made in Canada West, was that on Yonge Street, North of Toronto, by the same Engineer who first projected plank roads and plank side walks, which have since been so extensively adopted.
1914
Following the deeply rutted street, which had a narrow, plank sidewalk, they reached the Imperial Hotel. . . .
1958
. . . plank sidewalks were built [in Barkerville, B.C.] high above the muddy road.