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livre†

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Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

an old French unit of currency used in New France and in Quebec for some time after the advent of the British regime.

Quotations

1703
. . . they are paid in French livres, which are twenty Sols, whereas a Canada livre is but fifteen sols.
1820
. . . some wolves were black for which the Canadian traders gave 10 MB (i.e. livres).
1927
One of the most efficient of the early women teachers, who died in 1897 at the age of ninety-four years, taught school for four livres (a livre is about 16 1/2 cents) a week.
1964
In Canada, the sol had a value of about one penny, 20 sols making one livre, the 12 denier piece being equivalent to one sol.
2n.

Quotations

1761
Beaver . . . was worth, at Michilimackinac, two shillings and sixpence a pound, in the currency of that place; that is six livres, or a dollar.
1806
Hired Wananshish for the term of six years at the rate of 300 livres per annum.
1930
Grand Portage currency was reckoned as twelve livres to the pound.