noun, lake boat
“They just had small lake freighters.”
“I want to hear about the sailing.”
“Well, it was on the old lake freighters … They carried about a hundred thousand bushels of wheat or so.”
“We were sort of water people. My father, his father was a captain. They lived in the Village here when he was a kid. And he was on the freighters, his father. And my father sailed on a schooner for a little while.”
“Them old freighters I was on were 250 feet … When The Seaway went through, what killed all them freighters? The new big ships, the 730-footers. Inside of five years all the little fellars are gone.”
Words of Wolfe Island 