DCHP-3

Englishman

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Fur Trade, Hist.

a person working for the Hudson's Bay Company, as opposed to one working for any non-English company.

Quotations

1772
I find they consider an Englishman's going with them as a person sent to collect Furs; and not as an encouragement to them to trap furs, and come down to the Settlements. . . .
1821
A valuable Officer must necessarily be esteemed and it is quite immaterial whether he is an Englishman or a Canadian.
1952
"Hallo, Messieurs! Hallo, Charles!" he cried. "Belly, ye've the manners of an Englishman," and it was only much later that I learned that when a Northwester spoke of an "Englishman" he meant an employee of the Bay Company.
2n.

an English-speaking Canadian, as distinct from one whose language is French.

Quotations

1899
He was fond of music for an Englishman, and with a ravishing charm she sang for him a bergerette of the eighteenth century. . . .
1954
". . . I'd like to see him, the Englishman who's the equal of a metis. I've got boys of my own, sapristi!. . . ."