DCHP-3

pemmican post

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a meat post where pemmican (def. 1) was prepared and stored for supplying to the trading posts.

See: post

Quotations

1810
[Cumberland House . . . serves as the general Depot for all the dried Provisions made of the meat and fat of the Bison under the name of Pemican, a wholesome, well tasted nutritious food, upon which all persons engaged in the Furr Trade mostly depend for their subsistence during the open season.]
1935
. . . a long rest was ordered near a cluster of log huts, the winter headquarters of the Métis hunters from Fort Qu' Appelle--the Company's "pemmican post" a hundred miles to the north-east.
1953
In the early days when Churchill was a fur highway, Green Lake . . . was a pemmican station.