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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a retail store of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Quotations
1907
Where most of the old prairie posts stood in the old days, the company now have "Sale Shops" for the whites. . . .
1957
The "Saleshop" classification marked a modest type of urban transition, from fur trade to general store operation.