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master pedlar
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a stock-holding partner in the Montreal-based fur companies, especially the North West Company, who represented the company the year round at the trading posts in the fur country.
Quotations
1954
The first master pedlar to reach the Saskatchewan was Franceway, who seems to have gone there in 1767. . . .
1955
But, before the Company could catch its breath, the "Master Pedlars" had arrived. These were fur-traders, chiefly Scottish-born, operating out of Montreal.