DCHP-3

H.B.C. ((2))

Jocular
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1907
This [H.B.C.] flag is known from Labrador to the Pacific . . . Several would-be wits have given these mysterious letters odd meanings. Among several I call to memory, "Here Before Christ," "Hungry Belly Company" and "Here Before Columbus."
1933
"H.B.C. (hell's blackest curse), H.B.C. (half-breed credit), H.B.C. (heaven's bad charter), H.B.C.," rushing to an hilarious climax he flung his pen to the other end of the room. . . .