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meat post
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a post established by a fur-trading company to accommodate hunters responsible for supplying meat to trading posts in the district.
Quotations
1821
I intend providing even the meat posts with one or more [fishermen] and a good supply of twine for nets.
1896
It is a fact that several of the Hudson's Bay Company forts originally established as meat posts and once the centre of caribou migration are now many days' journey to the side of it.
1962
. . . Fort McPherson remained primarily a "meat post" until the last two decades of the century . . . useful primarily as a source of caribou and moose meat for other northern trading posts. . . .