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Man of the North
Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Hist.
a stock-holding partner in the Montreal-based fur companies, especially the North West Company, who represented the company the year round at the trading posts in the fur country.
Quotations
1868
[The voyageurs or boatmen were the rank and file in the service of the trader, and even the hardy "men of the north" . . . were fain to be paddled from point to point of their migrations.]
1952
". . . Ye'll forgive my fellows, I hope, but we are 'Men o' th' North' an' somethin' inclined t' boast about it."
2
a man who has lived in and is familiar with the Northland, especially a trader or trapper.
Quotations
1888
. . . even articles for washing [are] dispensed with by those who are desirous of being styled "men of the north."
1940
His eldest son, John, who succeeds to the title [Tweedsmuir], is also a man of the North.