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Orkneyman†
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a native of the Orkney Islands of Scotland serving in the fur trade, especially with the Hudson's Bay Company.
Quotations
1775
I have interfered so far as to ask what encouragement they required to which the Orkneymen seem'd to intermate that 12L per annum would enduce them to be active & useful.
1842
The animals frequenting this country [include] . . . the Common Hare of Canada, called Rabbits, by the Orkney men in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. . . .
1936
In the year 1799 about five hundred and thirty persons were employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, at their fur trade posts in North America, of whom four hundred and sixteen, or approximately seventy-eight and a half percent of the total, were Orkneymen.
1957
He had heard that . . . there were . . . a few red-faced Orkneymen, a few Moravian sisters and brothers.