DCHP-1 Online
road camp 
1 a camp for accommodating men engaged in building roads.
- 1889 The Government Rainy River Road Camp recently removed from near the mouth of the river back to near Fotherham & McQuarrie's mill, and they are now setting a road from this point to Grassy river.
- 1962 I might even find a meal at the road-camp cookhouse. . . .
- 1964 . . . a gang in a road camp went down to the lake in the dead of winter, cut a hole in the ice and dunked the unfortunate cook several times.
2 See quote.
- 1964 Today, many of the larger operations are what the logger refers to as "road camps"--not only is there no bunkhouse, but no cook-house either. The modern logger employed in a road camp leaves home each morning and returns to his family every night.
- 1889 The Government Rainy River Road Camp recently removed from near the mouth of the river back to near Fotherham & McQuarrie's mill, and they are now setting a road from this point to Grassy river.