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Cdn French, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in New France, a fur trader holding a lease on a certain trading post and having the sole right to trade in the defined vicinity.
See: farmer
Quotations
1676
[. . . the beaver shall be taken for all its weight by the "fermier" and not taken only for a pound and a half although it sometimes weighs up to two pounds.]
1956
In the same year (1742) the general policy of leasing posts was changed and all the posts were farmed out to traders reserving a certain allowance for the officers, but apparently the fermiers or traders were given little encouragement by the officers in full control.