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Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1a
all local produce of a region except furs.
Quotations
1822
That the following prices be allowed for Country produce . . . Birch Bottom Bark 3s. . . .
1963
The "Ocean Nymph" was piloted out of Churchill River . . . when the furs, oil, and country produce (including goose feathers and quills) were loaded on board.
1b
loosely, local produce in general, including furs.
Quotations
1966
Trading with the Moravian Mission at the permanent establishment protected the people from dealing with fly-by-night traders who sometimes cheated them, and paid for country produce in rum.
2
game and other food available from the forests and streams of the country.
See: country provisions
Quotations
1907
These people were brought up on country produce: i.e., fish and flesh, therefore found it no hardship to be without flour, etc.,--the white man's food.
1966
The food stocks brought in canoe and portage from Fort Garry in those decades were meagre enough and had all to be supplemented by "country produce."