DCHP-3

maître de poste

Cdn French, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in colonial Lower Canada, a person in charge of a road station, often an inn, on a public road. See quote.

Quotations

1832
. . . the maitre de poste is obliged to keep a certain number of horses, caleches, and cabrioles, ready at all hours of the night or day, for the accomodation of travellers.