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commissioned gentleman
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in the Hudson's Bay Company, any officer of the rank of assistant clerk or above.
Quotations
1828
Doctor Hamlyn and myself, were accompanied down to our craft by fourteen commissioned gentlemen and about as many clerks.
1907
I entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1863 as a clerk and retired in 1903 a commissioned officer of twenty years' standing.
1942
He belonged to that splendid group of "Commissioned Gentlemen" who during the nineteenth century built up the great traditions of the Hudson's Bay Company. . . .