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Leather Pass

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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The Yellowhead Pass. See 1906 quote.

See: leather track

Quotations

1828

Tete Jaune's Cache . . . called . . . by the Hudson's Bay people . . . Leather Pass. . . .

1904

The object of that expedition was to get a supply of leather, i.e., dressed moose or cariboo skins, which, scarce in the west, Indians and engagés needed to make moccasins, bags, ropes, pieces of attire, etc. The original Tete Jaune Cache, also called Leather Pass from the above mentioned circumstance, was at the first forks of the Fraser. . . .

1934

. . . part of the brigade turned up the Miette, and then crossing the "Leather" pass (the Yellowhead), reached the headwaters of the Fraser river. . . .