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cottonwood canoe 
a dug-out canoe fashioned from the trunk of the black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa, used by the Indians of the interior of British Columbia.
- 1873 (1904) . . . it is glorious work for the voyageur to launch his cottonwood canoe on the rushing water and glance down the broad bosom of the river.
- 1880 . . . strong wind . . . made the lake so rough as to be unsafe for the cottonwood canoes.
- 1958 [. . . pushing down the Peace River in canoes hacked out of cottonwood poplar trunks. . . .]
- 1873 (1904) . . . it is glorious work for the voyageur to launch his cottonwood canoe on the rushing water and glance down the broad bosom of the river.