fur-trading

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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trading in furs; the fur trade.

Quotations

1880

This responsibility rests mainly upon the Indian hunters, while Dumas himself attends to fur-trading.

1896

This is the island, by-the-way, where in the earliest days of fur-trading the Northwest Company had its headquarters.

1964

. . . numerous fur-trading posts sprang up along the south-west shore of Hudson Bay. . . .