DCHP-3

voyage ((2)) ((n.))

[influenced by Cdn F use in this sense]
Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a trip inland with a fur brigade, a journey as a voyaguer.

See: fur brigade,voyageur(def. 1a)

Quotations

1789
I had a very favorable voyage into the country until a short distance from Ile à la Crosse when one of the canoes got injured and sunk.
1828
The other five men of each of the canoes . . . with the assistance of the ten Indians in carrying the loading, were able to move everything in one haul (trip, "voyage" is the usual term)... .