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‖ canot|kano|
The French word for ‘canoe’, used in certain French phrases relating to the Canadian fur trade: canot du maître |kano dy mɛːtr|, the largest canoe of the fur trade, up to 40 feet long and carrying a cargo of 4 to 5 tons, formerly used esp. on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence; canot du nord |kano dy nɔr|, a canoe about 25 feet long and carrying over a ton of cargo, formerly used by the fur trade on the rivers of North-West Canada.
1828A. McDonald Peace River (1872) 41 The largest kind of canoes used in the trade, viz., those which used to be dispatched from Lachine, on first open water, to Fort William, Lake Superior, and which were called ‘Canots du Maître’. Ibid., The Canot du M. was of six fathoms, measured within, and the C. du Nord about four, more or less. 1961H. MacLennan Rivers of Canada 23 The Nor'Westers used two types of canoe which they called the canot du maître and the canot du nord, the former for the run out of Montreal, the latter, which was lighter and carried less than a ton and a half of cargo, for the run west of Fort William where the streams were shallower. 1963Canad. Geogr. Jrnl. Dec. 210/3 The bateaux were concealed, and the whole party of twenty-five embarked in a canot-du-maître for Fort Mackinac. |