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Lords of the North

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a fur-trading syndicate with its headquarters at Montreal, organized between 1775 and 1783 and absorbed by the Hudson's Bay Company in 1821.

Quotations

1903
. . . this had been on the route of the voyageurs from Montreal and Quebec at the time when the lords of the North journeyed to the scenes of their annual revels at Fort Williams.
1962
The pedlars . . . formed a great company. "The Lords of the North," people called them, and lords of the prairie they proved to be.