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cart brigade Hist.

• n. a brigade of Red River carts, carrying furs, supplies, trading goods, personal effects, etc.

  See also: cart train  Red River cart  

  • 1861  The Company's two grand cart-brigades to Carlton have returned.
  • 1963  The resistance of the Red River métis had not . . . preserved the buffalo hunt, the cart brigade, the semi-nomadic way of life. . . .