DCHP-1 Online
canoe song Hist. 
a song or chanson, especially as sung by French-Canadian canoemen as they plied their paddles; boat song.
See also: boat song
- 1828 A company of Canadian North West Voyageurs, lately arrived from Red River were introduced and sung their Canoe Songs for the gratification of the Queen.
- 1904 (1907) So now he puckered his lips to the sibilance of a canoe-song and waited.
- 1828 A company of Canadian North West Voyageurs, lately arrived from Red River were introduced and sung their Canoe Songs for the gratification of the Queen.