DCHP-3

skookum-house

Pacific Coast and Northwest
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

jail; prison.

Quotations

<i>c</i>1870
. . . it was only after much waw-waw (parley) and sundry threats of the skookkum-house (gaol) . . . that one of them was got to undertake to carry him.
1907
Turning to Tom I said, "I might have had you put in the 'skookum house' " (as they call the jail), "but I want you to do better. . . . "
1965
In 1872, Frederick Brent was appointed Justice of the Peace and a skookum-house (jail) was built on his land.