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scow brigade Hist. 
a fleet of scows transporting Hudson's Bay Company outfits (def. 1) to the trading posts of the North country.
See also: brigade (def. 1) outfit ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1928 McMurray held its place through being the point at which the scow brigade transshipped cargo to the river steamer.
- 1932 (1967) The present story is of a journey down the Athabaska in [1914] the last year in which the scow brigades carried northward to Lake Athabaska the season's freight for Chipewyan and the Slave and Mackenzie river posts.
- 1952 The last of the scow brigades was that which ran from Pagwa down the Pagwachuan River, to the Kenogami, and so into the Albany and down to James Bay.
- 1928 McMurray held its place through being the point at which the scow brigade transshipped cargo to the river steamer.