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Canadian trader

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trader from Quebec other than a Hudson's Bay man, especially a Northwester (def. la).

See: Canada trader,Montreal trader,Northwester(def. 1a)

Quotations

1778

. . . Mr. Tomison . . . I intent to send . . . to wait for the Indians . . . to intercept them from going to the Canadian traders.

1820

. . . they went for those Canadian Indians who had for a long time past been supplied with powder and shot from the Canadian trades. . . .

1954

Tomison . . . had learned that these [beaver] coats had been sold by the Indians to the Canadian traders, and had been taken away by them to the Grand Portage.