Help identify this tool, not an axe.

I think Canadians say "the bush" like the rest of the English speaking world. They have that famous "Bushcraft" guy. Bushcraft is what we used to call woodcraft. Now Roy Underhill calls woodworking woodcraft and bushcraft is popular so we're losing the Nessmuk/Kephart/Seton/White sense of the word woodcraft.
We still call it the woods where I come from, but only if it's got a lot of trees. If "the bush" means the wilds in general, I would say "the wilds" or "the wild" for that.
I wouldn't presume to lay down the law on the subject, and we do have a lot of dialect variation still.

To answered Franks question, what he said. When I was growing up my dad was a fan of western novels, that's where I get it from
 
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