goose hunt

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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at the Hudson Bay trading posts, an organized shoot during the spring and fall migration to lay in a supply of geese to be salted or frozen for food.

Quotations

1784

. . . packing and getting things in readiness for the Goose hunt at the Eastward. . . .

1834

. . . upon the Fall "Goose Hunt" as it is called, the living of the people at the different posts on the sea coast depends.

1963

The fall of 1816, even at Big River, was a bad one for country provisions as the goose hunt had proved indifferent. . . .