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trapping camp
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
an Indian camp used as headquarters during a hunt.
Quotations
1938
Each day there were fewer tepees on the reservation, for one by one the families were paddling away through the early snow flurries to their winter trapping camps.
1947
However, long before time to leave for their trapping camps, they gather in Fort Resolution, drink their rum . . . and play poker.
1965
In each district, the Department of Lands and Forests keeps a close watch on the trapping camps.
2
a simple cabin serving as quarters for a trapper.
See: trapping cabin
Quotations
1954
I strolled across the creek and into the spruce where there was an old trapping camp and cache.
1956
In all my years in the North never once have I been "lousy." That includes nights . . . far north of the Churchill in moss-chinked trapping camps. . . .