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pateroon
[< Cdn Fpatron(ne) < F "captain of a coastal vessel"]
Fur Trade, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:patron
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a commander; boss.
Quotations
1748
As there could be but few Snow-Shoes got . . . these they could procure were assigned to those of every Tent that hunted . . . there being seven persons in a Tent (including the Pateroon, or he who commands, and also a Boy) two of the People were Kept to Hunting, which term they give to going a Shooting of Partridge. . . .
2n.
in the canoes and boats of the fur brigades, the foreman of a crew, usually the most skilled boatman and the highest paid.
See: steersman
Quotations
1774
. . . the Pataroon or Steersman of each Cannoe has 50£ Prannom. . . .
1784
So terribly have we been afflicted with sickness I was forced to send up to Henley for hands from the building to navigate my second Boat thither and then was obliged to Hire 11 Indians & send Geo. Sutherland as Pateroon.
1809-11
. . . our patron, or steersman . . . conducted the first boat, and directed our motions.