DCHP-3

congé

Cdn French, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the 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. . . .