DCHP-3

Company Indian

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an Indian trading exclusively with the Hudson's Bay Company.

Quotations

1931
The Company Indian of today is the Indian who consistently trades with the Company in good or bad times and whose faith in the Company remains always unshaken.
1953
Every Indian was thus either a "Company Indian" or a "French Company Indian."