2 See 1953 quote at line (def. 7).
3 See 1942 quote. [See picture at high-lead system.] Also spelled mainline.
a unit of exchange equilent to the value of one prime beaver pelt, used in buying furs and bartering provisions, more usually referred to be trappers as a skin (def. 1).
Go to full entry >the Canadian national curling championship, name for the trophy donated by the Macdonald Tobacco Company.
Go to full entry >adj. having to do with or supporting the policies of Sir John A. Macdonald, 1815-1891.
Go to full entry >n. a supporter of the policies of Sir John A. Macdonald, 1815-1891; a Conservative.
Go to full entry >n. the most westerly of the Northwest Territories (def. 2b), named after the explorer Alexander Mackenzie, 1764-1820.
Go to full entry >n. the abortive rebellion in Upper Canada in 1837-38, led by William Lyon Mackenzie.
Go to full entry >1 a breed of small dog weighing 15 to 20 pounds and piebald in black and white or brown, found among the Indians of northern British Columbia, the Yukon, and the Mackenzie country.
Expand + | Go to full entry >1 n. a heavily napped and felted woollen cloth from which blankets and articles of clothing are made, nowadays usually of plaid design.
Expand + | Go to full entry >1 a heavily napped and felted woollen cloth from which blankets and articles of clothing are made, nowadays usually of plaid design.
Expand + | Go to full entry >1 a heavy, flat-bottomed freight boat. [See picture at York boat.]
Expand + | Go to full entry >a fur-trading company established in the Michilimackinac region by British interests.
Go to full entry >a North American char, Cristivomer namaycush, having important commercial value.
Go to full entry >a kind of tobacco formerly grown in the Madawaska region of southern Quebec.
Go to full entry >1 n. a unit of exchange equilent to the value of one prime beaver pelt, used in buying furs and bartering provisions, more usually referred to be trappers as a skin (def. 1).
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. one of the coins or tokens constituting beaver currency. [See picture at beaver.]
Go to full entry >a main road kept open and in good repair to ensure the prompt distribution of mail.
Go to full entry >a wife courted by correspondence, as through a matrimonial agency.
Go to full entry >n. the practice of promenading the main street of a town, especially by a politician wishing to meet and greet potential supporters.
Go to full entry >n. a penalty called against a player for certain infractions of the rules, including fighting and drawing blood with an illegal stick check, and punished by banishment from the ice for five minutes.
Go to full entry >1a enter upon certain rituals intended to gain the help of the gods in warding off evil or sickness, in ensuring a good hunt or successful war, in bringing harm to enemies, etc.
Expand + | Go to full entry >move ahead of a dog team, a vehicle, or a party of people, making a way through heavy snow, often on snowshoes.
Go to full entry >n. the process of cutting and trimming trees, especially for square timber.
Go to full entry >n. pl. fine-cut tobacco and paper with which to roll one's own cigarettes.
Go to full entry >n. or maktuk. The edible skin of narwhal and beluga, eaten fresh and raw by the Eskimos but usually cooked by whites.
Go to full entry >n. a box or container made of birchbark, often used to hold maple sugar, wild rice, berries, etc.
Go to full entry >a painful state of inflamed joints and muscles affecting snowshoers, caused by undue strain on the tendons of the leg.
Go to full entry >n. the sheepshead, Aplodinotus grunniens. Also spelled male achigan and malichigan.
Go to full entry >n. a canoe of the design used by the Malecite Indians of New Brunswick.
Go to full entry >n. a concentration of stores, usually in or near a suburban residential district, where there is adequate room for parking, spacious walks, etc.; shopping centre.
Go to full entry >n. an isolated rounded hill, sometimes one of two adjacent peaks resembling breasts.
Go to full entry >1 a stock-holding partner in the Montreal-based fur companies, especially the North West Company, who represented the company the year round at the trading posts in the fur country.
Expand + | Go to full entry >1 in early use, an engage of the North West Company who signed on to man the canoes plying between Montreal and the Grand Portage, so called because pork was the staple of their diet, as opposed to the pemmican and coarser foods endured by winterers and others who ventured into the interior. Also mangeur du lard.
Expand + | Go to full entry >in the early 1880's, the excitement in eastern Canada which led to extensive migrations to the newly opened-up province of Manitoba.
Go to full entry >a deciduous tree, Acer negundo, common in western Canada; box elder.
Go to full entry >n. a public controversy that raged in Canada between 1890 and 1919 and arose out of the enactment of provincial laws denying French-speaking Catholics the right to receive instruction in their own language in church-run schools, an issue which became national in scope because these laws were in defiance of the Manitoba Act (1870).
Go to full entry >a district depot where recruits of the Royal Canadian Air Force receive basic training.
Go to full entry >the place in a sugar bush where sugaring-off takes place, including the building and equipment.
Go to full entry >the produce of a sugar bush; annual production of maple sugar and maple syrup.
Go to full entry >a representation of the leaf of the maple tree, long used as an emblem of Canada.
Go to full entry >a syrup made from the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
Go to full entry >a person who operates a sugar bush, producing maple sugar and maple syrup.
Go to full entry >n. sugar obtained by boiling the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
Go to full entry >a syrup made from the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
Go to full entry >1 a syrup made from the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. the process of boiling maple sap to make syrup and sugar through evaporation and crystallization.
Go to full entry >a journey of any kind, especially by canoe, dogsled, etc.; also, a leg of a journey.
Go to full entry >1 n. a two-wheeled one-horse carriage, built to carry two passengers and having a seat on the splashboard for the driver.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a device consisting of a cable-drawn cradle equipped to run on rails up and down a ramp, used for launching and landing boats or for moving boats from one water level to another.
Go to full entry >1 n. the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
Expand + | Go to full entry >any of the provinces of British North America lying on the eastern seaboard; the present Atlantic Provinces (def. 1).
Go to full entry >n. a proposed union or federation of the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland.
Go to full entry >1 any of the provinces of British North America lying on the eastern seaboard; the present Atlantic Provinces (def. 1).
Expand + | Go to full entry >the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
Go to full entry >n. a proposed union or federation of the Maritime Provinces and Newfoundland.
Go to full entry >n. pl. the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Prince Edward Island.
Go to full entry >in colonial New Brunswick, a boat used for shipping produce and goods down river from the clearings to the towns.
Go to full entry >a rural road maintained by the provincial Department of Highways for year-round use.
Go to full entry >a farm sleigh having a large open box for carrying produce to market.
Go to full entry >1 n. any of several squirrel-like animals living largely on the ground, usually applied to the genus Spermophilus.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. one of a number of Negroes brought to Nova Scotia during the building of Halifax in 1749.
Go to full entry >a famous strain of hard, fast-ripening wheat developed in Canada in 1903, by Dr. Charles E. Saunders.
Go to full entry >a choice butterlike substance rendered from the bones of buffalo and other large animals and used by the Indians and traders as butter and as an ingredient of pemmican.
Go to full entry >a kind of broadleafed grass, Spartina sp., common in marshes and used as hay.
Go to full entry >a dike (def. 1) or dam equipped with a gate which functions as a valve releasing flood water from behind but preventing sea water from entering at high tide.
Go to full entry >a kind of broadleafed grass, Spartina sp., common in marshes and used as hay.
Go to full entry >an aquatic rodent, Ondatra zibethica, common to many parts of North America and widely trapped for its valuable fur.
Go to full entry >a series of traps set and maintained by a trapper who periodically runs the line, removing the trapped animals and resetting the traps.
Go to full entry >2 n. a large species of pike, Esox masquinongy, weighing up to 80 pounds, found principally in the Great Lakes system. Many spellings.
Go to full entry >a logging road, along which mast pine were hauled to the river for rafting (def. 1).
Go to full entry >n. a senior officer in a fur company, such as a wintering partner or factor, as opposed to a servant.
Go to full entry >in a dog team, the dog, sometimes a female, who leads the team, setting the pace and carrying out the driver's commands. See pictures at fan hitch and tandem hitch.
Go to full entry >an honorary title bestowed annually upon outstanding farmers and their families.
Go to full entry >1 the supreme deity of the Crees, Ojibwas, and related tribes, identified by some whites and Christian Indians with God.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a stock-holding partner in the Montreal-based fur companies, especially the North West Company, who represented the company the year round at the trading posts in the fur country.
Go to full entry >a penalty that banishes the offending player from the ice for the remainder of the game and carries with it an automatic fine and an investigation by league officials.
Go to full entry >in early Canadian rugby-football, a score resulting from wresting the ball away from an opponent while behind his goal line, such a score counting four points.
Go to full entry >n. a North American herb, Podophyllum peltatum; also, its egg-shaped; yellow, edible fruit. See 1866 quote.
Go to full entry >n. the trailing arbutus or ground laurel, Epigaea repens, of eastern Canada and the U.S., the floral emblem of Nova Scotia.
Go to full entry >1 n. (originally associated with the northern Indians) a tall, conspicuous spruce or pine denuded of all but its topmost branches to serve as a mark of honor for a friend, as a monument, or often as a living talisman of the man for whom it was made.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a large freight canoe, measuring about 40 feet and capable of carrying 4 to 5 tons, used for the voyage from Montreal to the Grand Portage. [See picture at Montreal canoe.]
Go to full entry >in colonial Lower Canada, a person in charge of a road station, often an inn, on a public road. See quote.
Go to full entry >a unit of exchange equilent to the value of one prime beaver pelt, used in buying furs and bartering provisions, more usually referred to be trappers as a skin (def. 1).
Go to full entry >n. a highly popular eating apple having a ruddy skin and juicy, white flesh.
Go to full entry >a highly popular eating apple having a ruddy skin and juicy, white flesh.
Go to full entry >n. an expanse of grassland, usually more or less surrounded by trees, in the uplands and valleys of the mountains.
Go to full entry >a cat-train, made up of sleds carrying the cooking, eating and sleeping quarters of a work-party in the wilderness.
Go to full entry >a post established by a fur-trading company to accommodate hunters responsible for supplying meat to trading posts in the district.
Go to full entry >a post established by a fur-trading company to accommodate hunters responsible for supplying meat to trading posts in the district.
Go to full entry >n. a proposed association of doctors to provide medical service in Upper Canada.
Go to full entry >n. the medical-care plan put into operation by the Saskatchewan Government in 1962.
Go to full entry >a program, usually government-operated, for providing medical care for all citizens of a country, province, etc.
Go to full entry >1 n. something believed to have power over the forces of nature; magic or supernatural powers believed to have the means of healing or harming.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a bag or pouch, often decorated with beadwork, used by the Indians to carry various objects believed to have magical powers in protecting the bearer from harm.
Go to full entry >originally in Indian parlance, a priest, especially a missionary of the Roman Catholic or Anglican denominations.
Go to full entry >a bag or pouch, often decorated with beadwork, used by the Indians to carry various objects believed to have magical powers in protecting the bearer from harm.
Go to full entry >among the Plains Indians, a bundle of objects believed to have magical powers for protecting the bearer or band against harm.
Go to full entry >1 a wigwam, teepee, etc. erected for use by a medicine-man (def. 1a).
Go to full entry >a pipe or calumet, believed to have magical properties and used in certain Indian rituals and ceremonies.
Go to full entry >among the Plains Indians, a pole set upright in the ground, decorated with feathers, and bearing numerous tribal fetishes as well as enemy scalps.
Go to full entry >a bag or pouch, often decorated with beadwork, used by the Indians to carry various objects believed to have magical powers in protecting the bearer from harm.
Go to full entry >a rattle used by the Indians in medicine rituals and to accompany singing and dancing. [See picture at shishiquoi.]
Go to full entry >among Plains Indians, an animal hide, as that of a buffalo, on which were symbolically represented the wearer's war deeds.
Go to full entry >1 a travelling show with attractions intended to lure a crowd of spectators, who were then asked to buy medicines, often said to have been ancient Indian remedies.
Go to full entry >any of a large number of stones, usually glacial erratics, on which sacred designs had been carved, formerly held in reverence by certain Plains Indians.
Go to full entry >1 a wigwam, teepee, etc. erected for use by a medicine-man (def. 1a).
Expand + | Go to full entry >a circle of stones found at old Indian encampments on the prairies and believed to be associated with the religious life of those who constructed them.
Go to full entry >1a n. an Indian magician or shaman who practises healing by means of charms and the exorcism of evil spirits or by practical remedies such as administering herbs and sweat baths.
Expand + | Go to full entry >the period of time taken for the ice in rivers and lakes to soften, crack up, and disappear.
Go to full entry >the so-called Galicians who entered Canada in the 1890's under the immigration policy of Sir Clifford Sifton, 1861-1929, then Liberal Minister of the Interior.
Go to full entry >a tall spruce, Picea sitchensis, found on the Pacific slope in British Columbia.
Go to full entry >an airplane flight to an isolated community to fetch a sick or injured person to hospital for treatment.
Go to full entry >a policewoman who patrols city streets, her main task being to check meters for parking infractions.
Go to full entry >n. a person of mixed Indian and European, especially French, parentage; half-breed.
Go to full entry >1 n. Metropolitan Toronto, an administrative federation of the city proper and suburban municipalities to provide certain common services, such as police protection.
Expand + | Go to full entry >the town designated as the seat of the district courts and other offices of municipal government in each of the districts of Canada West.
Go to full entry >n. the state or condition of being formed into a metropolitan administrative area, as in Metropolitan Toronto.
Go to full entry >a system of exchange in use during the latter part of the eighteenth century in the fur-trading regions of the upper Great Lakes.
Go to full entry >n. a small, two-man canoe (def. 1) of the design used by the Micmac Indians of the Maritimes.
Go to full entry >a system of radar stations stretching across Canada and designed to give early warning of hostile attack through the air.
Go to full entry >in Ontario, third and fourth form in high school, equivalent to Grades 11 and 12.
Go to full entry >in Canadian rugby-football, a position between the inside and the outside wing on each side of the line, now usually called a tackle; also the player functioning in one of the two middle-wing positions.
Go to full entry >n. in a freight canoe, York boat, or bateau, one of the crewmen who worked the paddles or oars from a middle position in the craft, a rank inferior to that of the bowsman or steersman.
Go to full entry >n. in a freight canoe, York boat, or bateau, one of the crewmen who worked the paddles or oars from a middle position in the craft, a rank inferior to that of the bowsman or steersman.
Go to full entry >n. an Indian magician or shaman who practises healing by means of charms and the exorcism of evil spirits or by practical remedies such as administering herbs and sweat baths.
Go to full entry >n. on the Prairies, the first tier of sections on each side of the Canadian Pacific Railway line within the railway belt, so called because each section was a mile deep and those closest to the line were first opened to settlement.
Go to full entry >n. in a freight canoe, York boat, or bateau, one of the crewmen who worked the paddles or oars from a middle position in the craft, a rank inferior to that of the bowsman or steersman.
Go to full entry >a parcel of land granted to discharged soldiers in compensation for military service.
Go to full entry >a tract of land reserved by the Crown for the use of military establishments.
Go to full entry >in colonial times, a township made up of concessions which were granted to disbanded soldiers.
Go to full entry >n. an organized army of citizen-soldiers distinct from the regular army and trained on a part-time basis as a reserve force for service in time of national need.
Go to full entry >a farm outbuilding where milk is kept, usually under some degree of coldness.
Go to full entry >n. a milk-producing region, the produce from which comes to a specific market.
Go to full entry >n. the smallest unit of reckoning in the Canadian monetary system, calculated as one-tenth of a cent but not now represented by any coin.
Go to full entry >a piece of land on which a flour mill was or could be built; specifically, a lot granted to a person who undertook to build and operate a flour mill there.
Go to full entry >a piece of land on which a flour mill was or could be built; specifically, a lot granted to a person who undertook to build and operate a flour mill there.
Go to full entry >a piece of land on which a flour mill was or could be built; specifically, a lot granted to a person who undertook to build and operate a flour mill there.
Go to full entry >a piece of land on which a flour mill was or could be built; specifically, a lot granted to a person who undertook to build and operate a flour mill there.
Go to full entry >a meeting of the miners at a camp to pass laws governing behavior, to try offenders, to settle disputes, etc.
Go to full entry >the law in effect in early goldmining communities, established and enforced by miners' meetings, also miner's law.
Go to full entry >n. a two-minute penalty awarded for any of a wide variety of infractions of the playing rules relating to checking, sticking, etc.
Go to full entry >1 n. Various spellings. The edible, purplish berry of the saskatoon bush.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a penalty awarded for misbehavior such as verbal abuse of the referee and involving banishment of the player from the ice for ten minutes, substitution being allowed.
Go to full entry >n. a mixture of Canadian French, Cree and, sometimes English spoken by the Métis of the older generation.
Go to full entry >among Prairie Indians, an underchief whose duty it was to prepare and pass around the medicine pipe at ceremonial occasions.
Go to full entry >a vessel plying the coastal inlets and islands or the inland rivers carrying spiritual and medical services to isolated communities.
Go to full entry >an Indian brought up near a mission and under the guidance of missionaries.
Go to full entry >1 the headquarters of a church mission among the Indians or Eskimos.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a species of buffalo (def. 2) native to the great plains, a smaller species than the wood buffalo.
Go to full entry >a kind of tobacco, Nicotiana attenuate, grown by the Plains Indians.
Go to full entry >n. a pair of coverings for the legs, usually made of dressed skins and often reaching from ankles to hips, where they are fastened to a belt, originally used by the Indians.
Go to full entry >brandy, rum, whisky, or high wines (often diluted and sometimes spiced with pepper, Tabasco, tobacco, or weak acids) traded to the Indians.
Go to full entry >in civil defence, one of a number of groups specially trained for the work of rescuing and evacuating people from stricken areas during attack, as by nuclear weapons.
Go to full entry >1 n. a flat-soled shoe of soft leather, originally worn by the Indians.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a dance where the couples wear moccasins, popular at winter carnivals and other forms of outdoor winter entertainment.
Go to full entry >one of several varieties of lady's slipper, as Cypripedium acaule or C. parviflorum.
Go to full entry >heel-less rubber overshoes worn over moccasins or duffle socks (def. 1).
Go to full entry >1 n. a soft leather slipper for wearing indoors, similar in design to a moccasin.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a warm ankle-length sock, or liner, of duffle worn inside moccasins, mukluks, etc. and usually folded down at the top.
Go to full entry >the spreading of news by word of mouth, originally by Indian runner.
Go to full entry >the spreading of news by word of mouth, originally by Indian runner.
Go to full entry >any of the trails followed by explorers and fur traders in the Northwest (def. 1a).
Go to full entry >the spreading of news by word of mouth, originally by Indian runner.
Go to full entry >n. a box or container made of birchbark, often used to hold maple sugar, wild rice, berries, etc.
Go to full entry >n. a wood-working knife usually having a crooked handle and, often, a hook at one end of the blade, used widely in the north, especially by the Indians, for making snowshoes, fur stretchers, canoes, and all woodwork. [See picture at crooked knife.]
Go to full entry >n. a syrup made from the sap of certain maple trees, especially the sugar maple.
Go to full entry >n. a coarse broadcloth or blanketing carried as trade goods, often made up into capotes.
Go to full entry >n. a certificate issued following the Northwest Rebellions to Métis as compensation for lost lands and entitling the bearer to the sum of $240.00, either in cash or as an allowance against the purchase of government lands.
Go to full entry >a style of snowshoe associated with the Montagnais Indians of Northern Quebec and Labrador.
Go to full entry >a large freight canoe, measuring about 40 feet and capable of carrying 4 to 5 tons, used for the voyage from Montreal to the Grand Portage.
Go to full entry >n. in early use, an engagé of the North West Company who signed on to man the canoes plying between Montreal and the Grand Portage, so called because pork was the staple of their diet, as opposed to the pemmican and coarser foods endured by winterers and others who ventured into the interior.
Go to full entry >a fur-trading syndicate with its headquarters at Montreal, organized between 1775 and 1783 and absorbed by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821.
Go to full entry >an administrative division of the Hudson's Bay Company. See 1929 quote.
Go to full entry >n. a wintering partner (def. 1) or employee of the North West Company.
Go to full entry >a half-penny token in circulation in the Canadas in the early 19th century, issued in Quebec about 1816.
Go to full entry >a trader from Quebec other than a Hudson's Bay man, especially a Northwester (def. la).
Go to full entry >n. a point where travellers left a water route to take a trail leading across the plains.
Go to full entry >n. a freshwater fish, Hiodon tergisus, related to the goldeye and found in the Lower Great Lakes.
Go to full entry >1 n. a large ruminant mammal, Alces alces, of the northern forests.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a shrub, Cornus stolonifera, with conspicuous red stems, the inner bark of which was often used in the making of kinnikinik (def. 1).
Go to full entry >a browsing area where a group of moose or deer in winter tread down the snow, remaining there for protection and warmth until the fodder within easy reach is exhausted.
Go to full entry >a small maple, Acer pensylvanicum, found in central and eastern Canada.
Go to full entry >the nose and upper lip of the moose used as food, considered a delicacy.
Go to full entry >the nose and upper lip of the moose used as food, considered a delicacy.
Go to full entry >the dewclaw and fibula of a moose used as a pin to hold together the flaps of a teepee.
Go to full entry >1 n. a large ruminant mammal, Alces alces, of the northern forests.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a shrub, Viburnum opulus; also the reddish, tart berry of this shrub.
Go to full entry >n. a shrub, Cornus stolonifera, with conspicuous red stems, the inner bark of which was often used in the making of kinnikinik (def. 1).
Go to full entry >1 n. a browsing area where a group of moose or deer in winter tread down the snow, remaining there for protection and warmth until the fodder within easy reach is exhausted.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a shrub, Viburnum opulus; also the reddish, tart berry of this shrub.
Go to full entry >n. a plant of the genus Epilobium, especially E. angustifolium, the floral emblem of the Yukon.
Go to full entry >1 n. a small maple, Acer pensylvanicum, found in central and eastern Canada.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. one of a small band of Christianized Delaware and Muncee Indians brought to Upper Canada by the Moravian Brethren from Pennsylvania and occupying the Moravian Grant after 1792.
Go to full entry >n. a grant of land made to the Moravian Brethren in 1792 (25,000 acres on the Thames River near Lake St. Clair).
Go to full entry >n. one of a small band of Christianized Delaware and Muncee Indians brought to Upper Canada by the Moravian Brethren from Pennsylvania and occupying the Moravian Grant after 1792.
Go to full entry >one of several trading posts in the Labrador peninsula in locations first settled by Moravian missionaries in the 18th century.
Go to full entry >n. a kind of cap having a long fringe of musk-ox hair, used as protection against mosquitoes, etc.
Go to full entry >n. a fire which gives off dense, acrid smoke from having damp moss, green grass or leaves, etc. heaped on its flames
Go to full entry >n. among certain Indian tribes, a kind of bag that is laced in front and sometimes attached to a cradle-board, used for carrying a baby and so called because the bag is lined with dry moss, which serves as a diaper. [See picture at cradle- board.]
Go to full entry >the rich vein or lode which has "mothered" the gold found below as float (def. 2).
Go to full entry >a monthly allowance paid to the parents or trustees of children under 16 years of age.
Go to full entry >a small over-snow vehicle equipped with skis at the front and powered by a motor driving a treaded endless track. [See picture at motor toboggan]
Go to full entry >a small over-snow vehicle equipped with skis at the front and powered by a motor driving a treaded endless track. [See picture at motor toboggan]
Go to full entry >a small over-snow vehicle equipped with skis at the front and powered by a motor driving a treaded endless track. [See picture at motor toboggan]
Go to full entry >n. the nose and upper lip of the moose used as food, considered a delicacy.
Go to full entry >n. a device used for shaping folded furs into 90-pound packs during pressing.
Go to full entry >in Old Quebec, the mill of the seigneur, where tenants were obliged to take their grain for milling.
Go to full entry >n. a member of a surveying team responsible for setting up boundary markers. See note.
Go to full entry >a large and, often, ferocious bear, Ursus horribilis, nowadays largely confined to the northern Rockies.
Go to full entry >a species of caribou, Rangifer arcticus montanus, native to the mountainous region of the Northwest.
Go to full entry >a goatlike mammal, Oreamnos montanus, found in the western mountains and related to the European chamois.
Go to full entry >a species of grouse, Canachites franklinii, found throughout the West and Northwest.
Go to full entry >a large, wild cat, Felis concolor, once common but now confined to southwestern Canada
Go to full entry >n. a chubby, partridge-like fowl, Lagopus rupestris, of the Barren Grounds.
Go to full entry >a small cutthroat trout, Salmo clarkii. See mountain cutthroat 1960 quote
Go to full entry >1 n. one of an Algonkian-speaking people of eastern Quebec and Labrador, the Naskapi.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a member of the Royal Canadian (formerly, North West) Mounted Police.
Go to full entry >a name proposed for the force known as the North West Mounted Police, now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Go to full entry >in a fire-drill, the socket held in the mouth and accommodating the vertical spindle. [See picture at fireboard.]
Go to full entry >1 n. topsoil that must be removed before mining can begin; also, pay dirt (def. 1 ).
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a contest in which miners compete in shovelling a measured quantity of broken rock (usually a ton) into a mine car in the shortest time.
Go to full entry >muskeg, bog mud, etc. applied to the runners of a dog-sled so that it freezes into a smooth-sliding surface.
Go to full entry >an aircraft fitted out to carry and drop chemical mud on forest fires to extinguish them.
Go to full entry >a primitive chimney made of rolls or bricks of mud, usually reinforced with sticks.
Go to full entry >in a school or house, a room just inside the entry where one removes and leaves overshoes and rubbers, to avoid tracking mud and snow through the building.
Go to full entry >n. a young Englishman sent out to Western Canada to learn farming. See 1957 quote.
Go to full entry >n. the nose and upper lip of the moose used as food, considered a delicacy.
Go to full entry >1 n. a type of warm knee-high boot worn by the Eskimos and Indians of the Northwest Territories and the Yukon. [See picture at mukluk.]
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. the edible skin of narwhal and beluga, called muktuk by the Eskimos, eaten fresh and raw by them but usually cooked by whites.
Go to full entry >in certain provinces, a riding in which more than one parliamentary or legislative seat exists.
Go to full entry >the governing body of a municipality such as a township or district.
Go to full entry >1 v. move ahead! go on! (a command to sled dogs to advance).
Expand + | Go to full entry >1 n. an aquatic rodent, Ondatra zibethica, common to many parts of North America and widely trapped for its valuable fur.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. an aquatic rodent, Ondatra zibethica, common to many parts of North America and widely trapped for its valuable fur.
Go to full entry >n. a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, having characteristics of both the ox and the sheep but having shaggy, dark brown to black hair, found in the Arctic regions.
Go to full entry >1 n. a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, having characteristics of both the ox and the sheep but having shaggy, dark brown to black hair, found in the Arctic regions.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a bovine ruminant, Ovibos moschatus, having characteristics of both the ox and the sheep but having shaggy, dark brown to black hair, found in the Arctic regions.
Go to full entry >1 n. an organic bog which is a brown to black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with a carpet of sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth.
1 the mixed train running on the Hudson Bay Railway.
Expand + | Go to full entry >1 the first railway into the Canadian North, from Winnipeg to Churchill, Manitoba, completed in 1932.
Expand + | Go to full entry >a school where persons whose work takes them into the muskeg learn how best to cope with the problems such terrain presents.
Go to full entry >n. the substance (humus, vegetation, etc.) of which such bogs consist.
Go to full entry >1 n. an organic bog which is a brown to black mixture of water and living and dead vegetation often covered with a carpet of sphagnum or other mosses and often of considerable depth.
Expand + | Go to full entry >either of two closely related evergreen shrubs, Ledum groenlandicum and L. decumbens var. palustre.
Expand + | Go to full entry >the brownish water that characterizes streams fed by or flowing through muskeg (def. 2).
Go to full entry >n. a large species of pike, Esox masquinongy, weighing up to 80 pounds, found principally in the Great Lakes system. Many spellings.
Go to full entry >n. a large species of pike, Esox masquinongy, weighing up to 80 pounds, found principally in the Great Lakes system. Many spellings.
Go to full entry >n. a fairly large bag made of netted babiche (def. 1), often used by hunters to carry game. [See picture at muskimoot.]
Go to full entry >1 n. an aquatic rodent, Ondatra zibethica, common to many parts of North America and widely trapped for its valuable fur.
Expand + | Go to full entry >the living quarters of a muskrat, built on islands in and around a muskrat swamp.
Go to full entry >n. the living quarters of a muskrat, built on islands in and around a muskrat swamp.
Go to full entry >1 n. an aquatic rodent, Ondatra zibethica, common to many parts of North America and widely trapped for its valuable fur.
Expand + | Go to full entry >n. a kind of bunk placed in banks at right angles to the wall so that the user must crawl in head first and out feet first (as in charging a muzzle-loading gun).
Go to full entry >a kind of bunk placed in banks at right angles to the wall so that the user must crawl in head first and out feet first (as in charging a muzzle-loading gun).
Go to full entry >a person who, though not a union member, pickets in sympathy with union members forbidden to picket by injunction.
Go to full entry >n. a person of mixed Indian and European, especially French, parentage; half-breed.
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