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old winterer

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See: winterer(def. 2)

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1830

The provisions for the Crew were Pork & Biscuits: from which circumstances the young recruits are called "Pork Eaters" to distinguish them from the old Winterers, who fed chiefly on "Pemican."

1908

Reports were received on the past season, men and plans arranged for the coming year, weak leaders shifted to easy places, strong men, "old winterers," "the crafty wolves of the North," dispatched to the fields where there was to be the hardest fighting against either Indians or English, and English always meant Hudson's Bay.