beaver money

Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a fur-trade monetary system in which one made beaver was the unit of value.

Quotations

1944

The tokens that are here in this pouch, and of which there are many more on Smallboy's toboggan, are called beaver money!

1967

Deprived of beaver money, the gentlemen of central Canada began to have second thoughts about the beaver's squatting rights on their coat of arms.