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cabingal3
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2015 05:42pm
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Quoting: SandyR When you say camp, all I can imagine is a bunch of men at deer camp, sitting around in their long underwear drinking beer and playing cards!
me too SandyR.good point there.lol
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bobrok
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2015 05:50pm
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You mean like this?URL
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SandyR
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# Posted: 17 Jan 2015 05:58pm
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Lmao! Yes exactly.
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creeky
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# Posted: 19 Jan 2015 02:58pm
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and on the issue of crick or creek, there's an essay by american outdoor / humour writer Patrick McManus that I remember ...
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cabingal3
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# Posted: 20 Jan 2015 05:07am
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lol.oh now thats too funny.
u pegged it perfectly bobrok.lol
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CanadianNorth
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2015 08:46pm - Edited by: CanadianNorth
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Cabin, Camp, or Cottage?
Some things are certain in life in my part of the world. If you have the latest trinkets such as an Iphone, an SUV (usually loaded of course), "Hunter Douglas" blinds in your place so you can show and tell to your friends and wear a tilley hat, then it's a "cottage".
This is typical nomenclature of the urbanites in and around Toronto who have most things built for themselves. But the real kicker is they say that they "built" the place when in fact they mean to say they paid someone to build the place for them. Most wouldn't know how to use a hammer or a saw. How could you tell that the term "cottage" grates on my ears every time I hear it?
To everyone else who sells their labour in order to live and has to build it themselves, it's a cabin or camp.
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Ontario lakeside
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# Posted: 21 Jan 2015 10:22pm
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In Ontario its a Cottage, big small, plain or fancy. We have an outhouse and its still a cottage. Northern Ontario, Manitoba and Sask its a camp.
A bunkie is a small sleeping cabin that is on the same property as the main cottage.
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Pookie129
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2015 05:45am
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I'm a little northeast of Bancroft - and it's a camp with cabins & outhouses....there is no mistaking our camp for a cottage...lol..lol..lol.
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rmak
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# Posted: 22 Jan 2015 11:08am
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Quoting: CanadianNorth and wear a tilley hat, then it's a "cottage".
I got worried since my wife bought me one of those hats (to shade my ever increasing forehead) so I ran back to my structure to check. It still has all of the mis-cut boards and air leaks as when I built it, no blinds, so I guess I guess I still got me a cabin.
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elgorr
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# Posted: 23 Jan 2015 09:20pm
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I'm from Maine and if it is built from logs it is called a cabin. Yeah we all love to go "upta camp" and there sure are a lot of camps here, but if it is a log house a lot of people call it a cabin. It has more to do with building design than anything really.
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Gone2TheCamp
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# Posted: 1 Mar 2015 09:18pm - Edited by: Gone2TheCamp
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We have camps and cottages here...I think it goes by the area that it's located. Also by the sort of person but certain types of people seem to mainly go to 'their' places anyway.
From my city, drive 30 minutes East and you're at the ocean...cottages, boats, beach. Drive 30 minutes West and you're in Albert County, where a murder has never been solved because there are no dental records and the DNA is all the same. (Anyone from Albert County will laugh, anyone NOT from Albert County will think I just said something offensive.)
Anyway, East 30 minutes is cottages, beer in green bottles, sickly sweet 'coolers', and sailboats.
West 30 minutes is camps, Bud, homebrew, and ATVs and trucks in the mud.
The camp/cabin thing is easy around here. "The camp" is the place...even if it's just a grassy spot in the woods where you party and have a bonfire, it's called 'the camp'.
Multiple sleeping buildings like in a tourist rental place, or the summer camps that we send kids to...those are about the only thing we call 'cabins' around here.
Or if it's made out of logs...the structure is called a cabin...but the structure combined with the land it's sitting on would still be called 'the camp'.
Oddly enough, the land where my 'camp' is also has an unused cabin on it. I call it 'the cabin', because there can't be two camps... And my camp isn't even a CAMP, it's actually a campER that I'm about to transform into a camp....
Not confusing at all....
This website should be renamed to small-building-that-sits-on-some-land-and-represents-a-place-that-we-love-to-go-and-g et-away-from-all-the-noise-and-crap-and-enjoy-the-simpler-things-with-family-and-frie nds-and-the-name-we-use-for-it-doesn't-really-matter-and-if-there-wasn't-17'-of-stupi d-snow-I-would-have-been-there-all-weekend .com
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Pookie129
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# Posted: 2 Mar 2015 04:39am
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Quoting: Gone2TheCamp This website should be renamed to small-building-that-sits-on-some-land-and-represents-a-place-that-we-love-to-go-and-g et-away-from-all-the-noise-and-crap-and-enjoy-the-simpler-things-with-family-and-frie nds-and-the-name-we-use-for-it-doesn't-really-matter-and-if-there-wasn't-17'-of-stupi d-snow-I-would-have-been-there-all-weekend .com
very funny...lol...lol.
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Steve_S
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# Posted: 2 Mar 2015 06:18am
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Great Thread !
@Gone2TheCamp... OUCH hurt myself laughing at that one.
We mostly call it Cabin, occasionally shack, rarely cottage and when talking to bldg. inspectors "shed". 
Bunkie... and here I thought that was "The Mans Dog House" but that's really what "The Shop", Garage, work shed, greenhouse, tree stand was for....
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Pookie129
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# Posted: 2 Mar 2015 06:48am
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Quoting: Steve_S We mostly call it Cabin, occasionally shack, rarely cottage and when talking to bldg. inspectors "shed".
this thread just keeps on getting funnier...lol..lol
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Wilbour
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# Posted: 2 Mar 2015 01:01pm
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Ours was "The property" until we stabilized a building and called it "the shed". After we installed windows and a door we called it "The Camp" because its not a cottage by any stretch
But if we are talking to a bldg. inspector it's still a shed.
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manny
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2015 04:53pm
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THIS IS NO C ABIN OR COTTAGE
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Jebediah
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2015 05:48pm
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To me a camp is where several structures serve one purpose, to support a group of people in a non permanent set up and where the sleeping quarters (bunk houses/tents) are separate from the dinning facilities and cook house, like in the old logging, mining and hunting camps.
Although in Northern On we did call our place a camp. It was a mix of words there also, cabin, camp, cottage and now chalets.
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Julie2Oregon
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2015 09:49pm
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Quoting: Jebediah To me a camp is where several structures serve one purpose, to support a group of people in a non permanent set up and where the sleeping quarters (bunk houses/tents) are separate from the dinning facilities and cook house, like in the old logging, mining and hunting camps.
Yes, exactly. Implicit in "camp" is a lack of permanence reflected in the structures, the people's stays, or both. It's why the noun "camp" is also used as a verb, an infinitive, and a gerund to denote a particular action/activity but "cabin" isn't.
Oh, did I ever mention that I'm a tiresome word geek, at times?  :p
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DRR
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2015 02:06am
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Very interesting and funny thread. Things that make you go hmmmm...
I call it a cabin and a camp is when I actually just go camping.
But I usually refer to my cabin, shed and property as "The Land".
On a side note I grew up calling it a creek, but in MT it's a crick (spelling?).
I should start a thread on ravines, draws, coulees, etc. LOL!
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turkeyhunter
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2015 07:45am
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Quoting: DRR I should start a thread on ravines, draws, coulees, etc. LOL
we call them hollows
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rmak
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2015 08:25am
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When does a woods become a forest?
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Jebediah
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2015 09:32am
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Quoting: rmak When does a woods become a forest?
We call it the bush lol....We were out in the bush 4 wheeling last weekend!
Its funny when you think about all the nomenclature for places and things. Like a bush plane, bush pilot, forestry worker etc.
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Wilbour
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2015 11:38am
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Quoting: rmak When does a woods become a forest?
When it's like a box of Chocolates
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naturelover66
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# Posted: 21 Dec 2015 09:17pm
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Well at the cabin i have a meadow.... Or a field... Or a clearing... ? Maybe its a pasture? Its wonderful whatever it is. Its definately not a yard!!!
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