A west coast visitor to our historic site today
asked if the log building term "chinking" refers to the Chinese in some
way. He was remembering the 1800's fish filetting machine
called the "Iron Chink" that replaced many Chinese workers on the fish cannery
plant line, and which for which the Provincial Museum recently revised the
text for its artifact to be more currently politically correct even though
the name is cast right into the iron frame of the device.
Anyway, since I recalled chinking as a common term for log building at Camp
Barton, I suggested that it probably was derived from caulking in some
way. Any ideas from you east coasters?
cp in bc