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pemmican boat Fur Trade, Hist. 
a boat carrying pemmican (def. 1) and other supplies to a trading post.
See also: pemmican (def. 1)
- 1820 (1938) I have therefore to request the favor of your sending to Isle a la Crosse by the Pemican Canoes the undermentioned skins and sinews, vizt.: 7 50 lbs. Sinews, and a quantity of Shaganapy lines.
- 1821 (1938) Perhaps you will be able to resolve this point by the return of Mr. Oxley or by the Pemmican Canoe in Spring.
- 1929 (1931) The pemmican boats, to which Simpson refers, reached Cumberland House on June 2, and the expedition under the command of the clerk Fraser proceeded northward to Methye Portage.
- 1963 Macdonell had . . . planted his battery in 1814 to block the pemmican-boats on the Assiniboine.
- 1820 (1938) I have therefore to request the favor of your sending to Isle a la Crosse by the Pemican Canoes the undermentioned skins and sinews, vizt.: 7 50 lbs. Sinews, and a quantity of Shaganapy lines.