DCHP-3

walking boss

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a foreman or superintendent of a series of construction camps, logging operations, etc.

Quotations

1881
Mr. D. J. McDonald, the walking boss on this division, is pushing the work ahead rapidly for the number of men he has.
1919
When we arrived Kelly's walking boss . . . told us Whalen did not have any work there for us.
1947
Paddy Farrell of Pembroke, who for many years was a "walking boss" for camps operated by the Gillies Company, recalls the first time he ever "went to shanty."
1961
During summer travel was on foot. The contractors' representatives were one "lone clerk" at each cache and a "walking boss" in charge of say fifty miles of work.