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Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a journal of all activities taking place at a post, including arrivals and departures, births, deaths, marriages, receipts of furs, employment of servants, and notes on the weather.

Quotations

1843

That Gentleman in charge of Districts be directed to furnish . . . Journals of Occurrences at the several posts.

1913

The Journal of Daily Occurrences . . . was, like the log of a ship, supposed to contain a complete record of everything taking place at the post.