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Hudson's Bay
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
See note at Hudson Bay.
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1a
See: Hudson's Bay Company
Quotations
1912
All us Liveyeres owed to the Hudson Bay. . . .
1958
As the loss of life mounted, the old people claimed the Hudson's Bay had put germs in the sugar to kill off the Indians
1b
(attributive uses) of or associated with the Hudson's Bay Company.
Quotations
1793
The Hu[d]son's Bay Party is here with us.
1873
Spanker and his six companions here passed from my hands, and remained at St. John's to idle through the approaching summer, and then to take their places as Hudson Bay hauling-dogs.
1934
. . . members of the staff [were] all wearing their best suits and nautical caps decorated with Hudson's Bay badges.
1966
When he sensed the overburdening opinion of Hudson's Bay men in the Island legislature, he plumped for reform.
2
an officer or servant of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Quotations
1893
". . . If he isn't, we're all wrong, Virginie. Could the Hudson Bays have interfered with him, I wonder?" and the factor knitted his brow perplexedly.
3
a durable woollen blanket long sold by the Hudson's Bay Company.
See: Hudson's Bay blanket(meaning 1)
Quotations
1920
I sat there wrapped up in one of Dunky-Dunk's four-point Hudson-Bays. . . .
1953
The stranger smiles and then he says:
"Why, them is four point Hudson Bays!
I hated to leave them back down there,
They're worth 'bout eighteen bucks a pair."
The stranger smiles and then he says:
"Why, them is four point Hudson Bays!
I hated to leave them back down there,
They're worth 'bout eighteen bucks a pair."