DCHP-3

free fur-trader

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a fur trader operating independently of and in opposition to the fur companies.

See: free trader(def. 2a)

Quotations

1929
In the Lake Winnipeg region, while the Hudson's Bay Company and the Free Fur-traders used the water routes of the North-West in going to-and-fro between the settlements and their winter quarters, it was common practice to fee a conjuror for the production of a fair wind.