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leather track

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the route through the Leather Pass.

See: Leather Pass

Quotations

1829

. . . requesting that a proportion of the Tobacco expected from York factory should be sent for this district by Okanagan, should none have been forwarded by the Leathertrack. . . .

1965

This so-called "leather trail" was necessary because moose and caribou were scarce in the west, but their hides were needed for moccasins, bags, clothes, and ropes at all the posts.