bachelors' hall

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the quarters of unmarried clerks at certain Hudson's Bay Company trading posts.

Quotations

1848

Bachelors' Hall, indeed, was worthy of its name, being a place that would have killed any woman, so full was it of smoke, noise, and confusion.

1869

They have seized . . . Bachelors' Hall and all the rooms over the office as their offices and bedrooms.

1957

[The Building] on the right is Bachelors' Hall where R. M. Ballantine [sic] lived.