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Peterborough (canoe) Peterboro [ < Peterborough, Ont.]

• n. a widely used wooden canoe patterned on the birchbark canoe and manufactured in Lakefield, Ontario, by the Peterborough Canoe Company.

  See also: birchbark canoe  

  • 1895  Eleven paddling canoes--eight Peterboro's and three Rushton--and the Cruiser, complete the fleet.
  • 1897  On the evening of the last day of May we launched our handsome "Peterboroughs" in the great stream, and commenced our long canoe voyage.
  • 1958  Here . . . light Peterborough canoes [were] packed over the passes on men's shoulders. . . .
  • 1966  . . . John Stephenson . . . later came up with the excellent cedar rib craft known the world over as the Peterborough Canoe.