a train of mules used for packing goods.
- 1859  Goods are reported scarce on the Upper Fraser; and mule-trains eagerly looked for by the hardy miners who anxiously desire to lay in a supply of provisions for the winter.
- 1957  A good mule could cover the distance from Yale to Quesnel in a month, having leapt like a mountain goat through the treacherous Fraser Canyon carrying a 250-lb load--at $ 1.00 a lb.--and most "mule trains" made money.