DCHP-3

fur-trade marriage

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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among fur traders and pioneers, a common-law marriage between a white man and an Indian girl.

Quotations

1940
[These two had already been married without benefit of clergy in the old fur trade way. . . .]
1942
Others were bound together by the so-called fur-trade marriages, the legal validity of which was upheld in later years by the Supreme Court in Quebec.