DCHP-3

fur trail

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1

the route or trail followed by a trapper maintaining his series of traps.

See: trapline(def. 2a)

Quotations

1921
As to the Indian mode of dressing meat and skins--more anon, when we are finally settled upon the fur trail.
1938
But death stalked the fur trails in other districts too.
2

a route followed by persons engaged in the fur trade.

Quotations

1966
A fur trail led east on the Anderson Creek from near modern-day Boston Bar and connected with the Nicola and Okanagan regions.