DCHP-2

small canoe Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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  See also: express canoe  single canoe  

  • 1798  (1964)  [I] sent two men in a small Canoe for their Skins.
  • 1860  Two sorts of boats are in use--the larger called "north canoes," thirty feet long, and carrying four or five tons; the others, "small canoes," very light, and carrying but three persons.
  • 1922  Canoes are built of varying sizes in two distinct classes; the small canoe, used by the individual Indian, in length fifteen to eighteen feet, for hunting or for moving the family from place to place; and the big canoe, or what today is designated a freighter, for the transport of goods or passengers.