DCHP-2
immigrant car DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a railway car carrying immigrants, as on an immigrant train.
See also: colonist car emigrant car immigrant train
- 1883 The regular train west yesterday had a new immigrant coach attached, crowded with immigrants for the west.
- 1935 (1951) . . . they travelled west from Winnipeg in an immigrant car.
- 1959 The immigration department recently ordered out of its immigrant coaches the vice-president of a German-Canadian club in Toronto. . . .
- 1883 The regular train west yesterday had a new immigrant coach attached, crowded with immigrants for the west.