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freighter canoe 
a large canoe (from 20 to 30 feet long), used for transporting goods, especially in the North.
See also: freight canoe
- 1942 In the big twenty-six-foot freighter canoe, with the old outboard motor attached, we would go over to the Sound where the ice floe was thickest and there find netchek, the hair seal, sporting among and resting on the ice blocks.
- 1963 The [James Bay] trip they made without a guide, using their own freighter canoe and camping on the shores of the bay.
- 1942 In the big twenty-six-foot freighter canoe, with the old outboard motor attached, we would go over to the Sound where the ice floe was thickest and there find netchek, the hair seal, sporting among and resting on the ice blocks.