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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a permit to enter Indian country, issued by the Governor of New France.
Quotations
1931
Licenses (congés) to enter Indian country were required.
1956
. . . a partner of M. de la Marque secured two congés in 1739, one for three canoes and eighteen men . . . and one for four canoes and twenty-eight men. . . .