DCHP-3

trade goods†

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the guns, ammunition, tobacco, blankets, etc. that the fur traders carried in stock to exchange for furs.

Quotations

1921
This post was so remote that seven years would elapse between the time trade goods left London for Fort Selkirk and the time the furs obtained in exchange arrived.
1957
In time, the commodities used in the purchase of furs, or in any other dealings with the natives, came to be known as "trade goods."