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Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1945 quote.
Quotations
1694
Today 3 of us was sent over ye river . . . to keep an Eye abroad our people wen[t] a rafting also.
1748
. . . two of the People were Kept to Hunting, which term they give to going a Shooting of Partridge. . . .
1800
At these places, most of the property was taken out of the canoes, and carried across the Portages, on the backs of the people.
1945
In the records of the Company, any employee from the rank of clerk up, was termed a gentleman. Labourers, hunters, and the like, were referred to as the "people."