DCHP-1 Online
stopping-house Hist. 
n. a place providing accommodation for travellers; an inn, usually of a primitive sort.
See also: keep-over mile house roadhouse
- 1883 The road from Carrot River crosses the South Saskatchewan at this point where there is now a first class ferry and stopping house.
- 1912 None of the stopping-houses along this trail have progressed beyond the most primitive stage. They provide a floor for you to sleep on and a fire-place, in some cases a stove for you to cook your food on; that is all.
- 1958 . . . farmers have had to subsidize their land with stopping houses, by mining, freighting, railway construction, or, as at present, by logging.
- 1883 The road from Carrot River crosses the South Saskatchewan at this point where there is now a first class ferry and stopping house.