York boat

York boat
(sometimes l.c.) Canadian.
a large rowboat or heavy canoe used for transporting supplies, esp. by fur trappers in the Canadian Northwest.
[1860-65; after York, Manitoba, Canada, where it was originally built as a canoe by the Hudson's Bay Company]

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