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sturgeon-nosed canoe B.C. 
a type of bark canoe formerly associated with the Kootenay Indians. [See picture at sturgeon-nosed canoe.]
See also: canoe ((n.)) (def. 1)
- 1808 (1960) [The men described it ["a small canoe, narrow at both ends"], un cant puit au bec d'Eturgeons [which] could carry no more than two at a time.]
- 1932 (1955) Some of them [Chilcotin] pointed the ends of their bark canoes to correspond with the "sturgeon-nosed" canoes of the Interior Salish and Kootenay. . . .
- 1808 (1960) [The men described it ["a small canoe, narrow at both ends"], un cant puit au bec d'Eturgeons [which] could carry no more than two at a time.]