See also: camboose (def. 3) logging (def. 2) shanty ((n.)) (def. 2)
- 1947  (1963)  These shanties were built with a "camboose" in the centre, and came to be known as camboose camps.
- 1961  Associated with this museum is the Algonquin Provincial Park Logging Exhibit . . . [which] includes a full-size replica of a logging shanty or "camboose camp". . . .
2 a logging camp.
See also: camboose (def. 4) logging camp shanty ((n.)) (def. 3a)
- 1947  The author . . . has been at pains to describe minutely life in the camboose camps of the lumbering days. . . .
- 1964  In the fall the teams would move up the line toward the limits where the camboose camp was being built for the winter.