a canoe made of the bark of western white pine, now largely confined to the Kootenay Valley.
Go to full entry >1 n. a person who attempts to gloss over or cover up (evil, corruption, etc.).
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a large game fish, Salmo gairdneri kamloops, native to the upper Columbia and Fraser Rivers; a landlocked steelhead.
Go to full entry >n. a native of the South Sea Islands, especially a Hawaiian in the service of the Hudson's Bay Co. on the Pacific Coast, most of whom settled in British Columbia.
Go to full entry >n. a hooded outer garment of fur or other material. See picture at atigi (def. 2).
Go to full entry >1 n. a light sealskin boat completely decked except for a cockpit to accommodate the hunter, who propels the craft with a double-bladed paddle.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a large semisubterranean winter dwelling formerly used by certain Indian tribes, a typical example being 10-12 feet deep and 25-40 feet in diameter, covered with split logs and a layer of mud, and accommodating 12-15 persons.
Go to full entry >a large semisubterranean winter dwelling formerly used by certain Indian tribes, a typical example being 10-12 feet deep and 25-40 feet in diameter, covered with split logs and a layer of mud, and accommodating 12-15 persons.
Go to full entry >n. a place providing accommodation for travellers; an inn, usually of a primitive sort.
Go to full entry >a person trading or selling whisky, especially as an illicit business, to the Indians.
Go to full entry >1 a subspecies of the black bear, Ursus americanus kermodei.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a distillant of petroleum, used for heating, illumination, and various other purposes.
Go to full entry >a distillant of petroleum, used for heating, illumination, and various other purposes.
Go to full entry >n. a stick of green wood, often resting on two crotched uprights, used to hold kettles over a campfire.
Go to full entry >n. a polygonal block of snow dropped into place in the centre of an igloo dome and serving to lock the structure firmly together. See picture at igloo.
Go to full entry >n. a polygonal block of snow dropped into place in the centre of an igloo dome and serving to lock the structure firmly together.
Go to full entry >n. a bony species of herring, Alosa pseudoharengus, of the eastern seaboard and Great Lakes.
Go to full entry >a place, usually a town, where one leaves the railway or other link with civilization to proceed into the wilderness.
Go to full entry >n. a dwarf landlocked salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi, native to southern British Columbia.
Go to full entry >n. a large semisubterranean winter dwelling formerly used by certain Indian tribes, a typical example being 10-12 feet deep and 25-40 feet in diameter, covered with split logs and a layer of mud, and accommodating 12-15 persons.
Go to full entry >in hockey or lacrosse, attempt to prevent the opposition from scoring by controlling the play while one's own team is short-handed.
Go to full entry >n. the cross-log that falls on and kills the animal caught in a deadfall (def. 1).
Go to full entry >(used attributively) of or having to do with Englishmen or subjects of King George, the English king when white traders first appeared on the Pacific coast, the term being adopted with this meaning into the Chinook Jargon and used in contrast to Boston.
Go to full entry >a vast tract of land lying north of the Lower St. Lawrence and originally belonging to the French kings, who leased the trading rights to traders, a practice taken over by the British government after 1760.
Go to full entry >one of the women sent to New France by Louis XIV as wives for settlers.
Go to full entry >choice white pine marked with a broad arrow and claimed as government property for use as spars and masts for the navy.
Go to full entry >1 n. one of a number of fur-trading and fishing posts in Quebec, most of them in the King's Domain.
Expand + | Go to full entry >1 the publisher of a newspaper authorized by the government to print laws and proclamations as well as the debates and proceedings of Parliament.
Expand + | Go to full entry >tracts of timberland in British North America set aside as a source of lumber, especially for masts and spars.
Go to full entry >1 n. a smoking mixture varying as to ingredients from tribe to tribe and place to place, but including bearberry or sumac leaves, the inner bark of red-osier dogwood and, often, tobacco.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a dance at the end of which the dancing couples kiss, popular at New Year's parties.
Go to full entry >n. the young of any of the smaller fur-bearing animals, especially of the fox.
Go to full entry >n. the killer whale, as characterized on the totem poles of West Coast Indians.
Go to full entry >1a a small fox, Vulpes velox hebes, once common on the prairies.
Expand + | Go to full entry >1a n. a small fox, Vulpes velox hebes, once common on the prairies.
Expand + | Go to full entry >adj. or attrib. in sports, a strongly defensive style of play, often adopted by a team already ahead in goals.
Go to full entry >1 n. a region in the Yukon Territory, including the Klondike river and its tributary creeks, scene of the great gold rush of the late 1890's.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a safety chimney consisting of two concentric sheet-metal cylinders joined at top and bottom by perforated collars which allow an exchange of air, thus preventing over-heating of the stovepipe, which passes upward within the inner cylinder.
Go to full entry >the excitement and lust for gold generated by the Klondike gold rush.
Go to full entry >a game of solitaire in which 28 cards are laid out in seven piles, the first of which has one card face up, the second two cards with the top one face up, and so on, the player using the rest of the deck and the exposed cards to build runs of alternating colors in an attempt to use up all the cards and thus make four complete runs. Also Klondike.
Go to full entry >the great stampede of gold-seekers to the Yukon beginning in 1897.
Go to full entry >a social affair where people dress as sourdoughs, hurdy-gurdy girls, etc., men often growing beards for the occasion, which includes numerous games of chance played with stage money.
Go to full entry >a route through the western prairies and B.C. leading to the Klondike.
Go to full entry >n. the representative of a riding (def. 1) in a provincial house of assembly.
Go to full entry >William Lyon Mackenzie, 1795-1861, leader of the radical Reformers responsible for the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada (a derogatory allusion to his red hair).
Go to full entry >an enormous grizzly bear, Ursus middendorfi of N.W. Canada and S. Alaska.
Go to full entry >n. a dwarf landlocked salmon, Oncorhynchus nerka kennerlyi, native to southern British Columbia.
Go to full entry >n. a shallow, crescent-shaped dish of soapstone in which seal-oil or caribou fat is burned to provide light and heat for cooking in an Eskimo home.
Go to full entry >1 n. a hooded outer garment of fur or other material. See picture at atigi (def. 2).
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