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canot du nord Cdn French

• a birchbark canoe 25 to 35 feet long, 5 to 6 feet wide, and 2 to 21 feet deep, capable of carrying some 11 to 2 tons of goods, a crew of 8 or 9, and 2 or 3 passengers, used primarily on the waterways north and west of Lake Superior.

  See also: North canoe  

  • 1828  (1872)  The . . . C[anot] du Nord [measured] about four [fathoms]. . . .
  • 1954  . . . the canot du Nord . . . was ideally suited to the network of small rivers and lakes.
  • 1961  This single tow of ours moved as much cargo . . . as could have been carried in the old days by nine hundred canots du nord.