fish post

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a northern post where the principal food was fish and where fish were caught for supplying to other posts.

Quotations

1821

The same precaution [to have an adequate supply of twine] is applicable to all our fish posts.

1938

Whitefish were the usual mainstay of the "Fish Posts" in the interior.