packet

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a parcel or package of mail, instructions, business documents, etc. Also spelled pacquet.

Quotations

1679

We are glad to heare of your safe arrivall . . . & have received the Packets you have sent us. . . .

1778

. . . three Young North River Indians came with the pacquet, which they have had in their care since the Fall.

1783

Two gone with a paquet to Albany.

1874

The Athabasca accounts for the Past Outfit were closed and the Packet given over to the care of Mr. Moberly.

2n.

a party carrying mail and other special deliveries between trading posts by dog-sled, canoe, etc.

1861

The last packet from the far north brought us the following most interesting and most valuable communication from the Rev. W. W. Kirby. . . .

1956

"The Packet," a canoe-brigade in the summer or a string of dog teams in the winter, carried in the mail and brought out the fur.