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Red River Canad.
The name of a river flowing from North Dakota, U.S.A., to Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, used attrib. in Red River cart Hist. (see quot. 1875); Red River fever, typhoid fever; Red River frame Hist., used in a particular style of architecture (see quot. 1921); Red River jig, a fast, intricate jig.
1857J. Palliser Jrnl. 14 July (1863), The Red River cart is one admirably suited to the exigencies of the country. 1875J. Carnegie Saskatchewan & Rocky Mts. ii. 13 Red River cart, a stout two-wheeled vehicle of the toughest quality though entirely made of wood, wheels, body, shafts, and all, being fitted together without a single particle of iron. 1968[see ox-train s.v. ox 5]. 1975Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ontario) 21 Nov. 25/1 I've been here [sc. at Calgary] for three days and I haven't seen one buffalo, or a Red River cart or a redcoated Mountie or a saloon shoot-out.
1880D. Currie Lett. of Rusticus 62/1 Red River fever was very prevalent at the Portage. 1889J. G. Donkin Trooper & Redskin in Far North-West iii. 41 In fact it is the typho-malarial scourge known as Red River fever in Manitoba, jungle fever in India,..and Rocky Mountain fever in British Columbia. 1945K. M. Haig Brave Harvest 40 Aunt Alice's heart sank. The Red River fever! 1966M. Kavanaugh Assiniboine Basin xxxv. 223 Fisher spent six weeks in the hospital suffering from typhoid—sometimes called Red River fever.
1882Edmonton Bull. 29 July 4/1 They are of the style known as Red River frame and are for use as storehouses. 1921Beaver Feb. 15/2 The ‘big house’ was a two-and-a-half storey building, with a large kitchen behind, built from the same plan as the officers' dwellings in Fort Garry, and known as a Red River frame building. 1963MacLeod & Morton Cuthbert Grant of Grantown 93 There on the western limit of his seigniory, Cuthbert Grant built the great log house, in the Red River frame style.
1872Canad. Monthly Oct. 305/1 The principal dance, in fact the only one, is called a Red River jig, which somewhat resembles a horn-pipe, male and female participating in it. 1930L. Munday Mounty's Wife iii. 44 The jigging by the men, known as the Red River jig, is really done very cleverly and is so swift. 1965G. Shepherd West of Yesterday x. 74 Two compatriots came out on the floor and danced a Red River jig. |