a building for sheltering, making, repairing, and storing canoes, one of the essentials of many fur-trade posts.
See also: canoe house
- 1921  On their way to the Indian shop they passed the canoe shed, where skilled hands were finishing two handsome six-fathom canoes for the use of the Fur Brigade.
- 1953  . . . the old birch freighting canoes were still in the canoe sheds. . . .