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tractor brigade North

• n. a tractor-drawn train of sleds and cabooses (def. 5), the principal means of transporting freight, supplies, etc. in the Canadian North in winter.

  See also: caboose (def. 5)  cat-train  fur brigade  

  • 1958  The tractor brigades started operating out of Grimshaw for the far north.