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CHANTIER FORESTIER [1 record]

Record 1 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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