lumber camp

noun, N. Amer., a camp in which loggers live (COD); see also logging camp

“I came in the summertime, but I worked four winters in the lumber camps.”

“How many winters did you go to lumber camps?”

“I worked in the lumber camps in the winter months.”

“I worked for four dollars a day on the farms here. Five dollars in lumber camp first.”

“See the sawmill was in Cloyne, and the lumber camp’s about nine miles into the bush. There was two camps there, in fact. I was in the one.”

“They want to have the tools what I used in the lumber camp. You know that’s something special. There was an axe and a little bow saw and mitts, yeah, heavy stuff. They had it in the museum, there for that summer.”

“Yeah, and he worked in a lumber camp the odd winter. ‘Cause see in the wintertime, they used to dry the cows up, eh, and so there wasn’t much to do with the cattle.”

“You’re stuck in the lumber camp.”