provision post

Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a post established by a fur-trading company to accommodate hunters responsible for supplying meat to trading posts in the district.

Quotations

1896

Rae was for many years the best provision post in the Mackenzie District, and furnished thousands of pounds of meat for the river transport.