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Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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game and other food available from the forests and streams of the country.

See: country food,country produce(def. 2),English provisions

Quotations

1717

The Country Provisions is very scarce here at present.

1853

I would impress upon your mind the great importance of securing as large a stock of country provisions as possible seeing that the stock here [Fort Victoria] is quite inadequate to meet all the demands upon it.

1963

[At] an alternative site to the south of Cape Jones . . . country provisions could be obtained to supplement European fare. . . .