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Fur Trade, Hist.
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1n.
a trading post which also served as a warehouse for supplies for other posts.
Quotations
1784-1812
The greatest use of the Winepeg House is for a depot of Provisions, which are brought to this place by the canoes and boats from the Bison countries of the Red and Saskatchewan Rivers, and distributed to the canoes and boats for the voyages to the several wintering furr trading Houses.
1836
Spring: In Spring Mr. McPherson went off with the brigade . . . leaving me in charge of the Depot.
1952
We were told that in the Great Lakes' service, between the Northwest depot at Fort William and Montreal, there was an even larger type in regular use: the canot du maitre . . . .
2n. — Obs.
a storing place where supplies, furs, equipment and other goods may be deposited for protection from foraging animals and the weather.
See: cache ((n.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1852
A depôt of one bag of dog pemmican, a small bag of bread, and one case, 90 lbs., of pemmican, was left, partly for our return, but principally because all the sledges had full allowance without them
3n. — Lumbering, Hist.
a farm, operated by a lumber company or privately owned, supplying fresh meat and vegetables, oats, etc. to lumber camps and often serving as a repository for supplies.
Quotations
1883
He generally makes his habitat about the farm or depot of the [lumbering] concern.
1891
This depot was simply a large farm in the midst of a wilderness of trees, and forming a center from which some half dozen shanties, or lumber camps, placed at different distances in the depths of the forest . . . were supplied with all that was necessary for their maintenance.
1961
He began clearing land on what was later referred to as "The Farm," although it was a depot for lumbering rather than agriculture.