DCHP-3

winter canoe

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a sturdy small boat long used in crossing the St. Lawrence in winter, its trained crew propelling it, often loaded with freight and passengers, through swift currents choked with ice-cakes and manhandling it over the sharp, uneven ice banks, or bourdigneaux.

Quotations

1830
On Friday one of the winter canoes used in crossing the Saint Lawrence . . . was upset just at the moment it was launched into a small opening between the floating ice.