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Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:wood camp
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a camp at which logging (def. 2) is carried on.
Quotations
1905
A man, Camille, from one of these wood camps, on his way to the fort for a supply of provisions, placed, foolishly, a remnant of salt salmon he had with him on one of these wolf baits. . . .
1930
They organized a strike amongst the unemployed "Relief" workers who were herded in a winter wood camp in tents some 40 miles out in the country, with wages $2.00 per day for married men and $1.00 a day for single men.
1965
MB and PR has begun construction of 350 homes on three of its west coast divisions in an attempt to wipe out the shacktown concept from its woods camps.