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road camp
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a camp for accommodating men engaged in building roads.
Quotations
1889
The Government Rainy River Road Camp recently removed from near the mouth of the river back to near Fotherham & McQuarrie's mill, and they are now setting a road from this point to Grassy river.
1962
I might even find a meal at the road-camp cookhouse. . . .
1964
. . . a gang in a road camp went down to the lake in the dead of winter, cut a hole in the ice and dunked the unfortunate cook several times.
2
See quote.
Quotations
1964
Today, many of the larger operations are what the logger refers to as "road camps"--not only is there no bunkhouse, but no cook-house either. The modern logger employed in a road camp leaves home each morning and returns to his family every night.