[Canadian Fr.; cf. F. chantier ‘place where one sleeps, place where one puts certain things to store them or to work them’: see Littré.] A (Canadian) log-hut, a SHANTY.
1869. Daily Spectator (Hamilton, ON), 8 April, 2/5. Teams are hastening home from the ‘chantiers’ not at all sorry.
1880. Lumberman’s Gaz., 28 Jan. A lumberman’s Chantier in the valley of the Ottawa is made of pine logs. Ibid. Farms the products of which are entirely consumed by the chantier-men.
1884. S. E. Dawson, Hand-bk. Canada, 26. They build themselves chantiers, of rough logs.
