line post

Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a fur post close to a railway line.

See: line ((n.))(def. 7)

Quotations

1921

. . . even now Long Lake cannot be classed as a "line post," owing to the distance of two miles from the station. . . .

1931

. . . visiting at North Bay . . . besides visiting the "line" posts on the C.N.R., belonging to Superior-Huron district.

1961

I guess "roughing" is the right word to describe the year we started at the line post of Nakina. . . .