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LUMBER SHANTY [3 records]

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Record 1 1994-02-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

A camp at which logging is carried on.

OBS

logging: The business or occupation of felling and sawing trees and of transporting them to sawmills, lumberyards, etc.

OBS

The word "shanty" developed as an equivalent for the French-Canadian word chantier, a lumber camp.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Construction et aménagement destinés à une équipe de bûcherons près des lieux où se fait un chantier dans la forêt.

DEF

Habitation de forestiers, de bûcherons, etc.

OBS

Chantier : lieu où se pratique la coupe du bois dans une forêt.

OBS

Le Dictionnaire de la langue québécoise rurale de David Rogers (ROQUE) ainsi que le Glossaire du parler français au Canada (FRACA) reconnaissent un second sens à «chantier» qui est celui de «quartier général des hommes qui travaillent à une exploitation forestière».

Key term(s)
  • campe

Spanish

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Record 2 1990-03-27

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forestry Operations
  • History of Technology
DEF

A specially designed log bunkhouse used by a gang of loggers.

OBS

... the name "camboose" was originally the French word "cambuse" -a store-room, and as in so many other cases where French words were used in Canadian lumber camps, its true meaning had been changed because of the new environment .... The camboose shanty was more than a store-room in the early lumber camps, since this one building served as dining, sleeping, and recreation centre, throughout the winter's bush operations.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation forestière
  • Histoire des techniques
DEF

Bâtiment principal d'un chantier (camp de bûcherons) au 19e siècle, tenant lieu de magasin de vivres, de dortoir et de centre récréatif.

OBS

Il est à noter que la notion de cambuse dans le contexte forestier pouvait aussi désigner soit un magasin de vivres (sens attestés par le Glossaire du parler français au Canada et le Dictionnaire nord-américain de la langue française de Louis-Alexandre Bélisle) soit une construction destinée à loger les bûcherons. Ces différences tiennent compte de l'évolution des chantiers et partant, du nombre accru de bâtiments qui les composaient.

Spanish

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Record 3 1988-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Forestry Operations
DEF

A camp at which logging is carried on.

OBS

logging: The business or occupation of felling and sawing trees and of transporting them to sawmills, lumberyards, etc.

OBS

The word "shanty" developed as an equivalent for the French-Canadian word chantier, a lumber camp.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation forestière
DEF

Lieu où se pratique la coupe du bois dans une forêt.

Spanish

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