DCHP-3

trader

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a person engaged in the fur trade.

Quotations

1775
These losses together with their payment not only runs away with all the Profit, but renders the Company's Servants the make game and laughing stock of every trader from Canada.
1897
About us were to be seen evidences of communication with traders, such as a large tin kettle, two old guns and a pair of moleskin trousers.
1955
Long after he had made his desperate journey into the wilderness did the trappers, the settlers and the traders come.
2n. — Obs.

a person who took trading goods inland and carried furs back to a post.

See: carrier

Quotations

1776
[Primeau] who is his linguist, trader, a Pataroon, and everything . . . has but 25£ a year. . . .
1795
I have often heard it observed, that the Indians who attend the deer-pounds might, in the course of a winter, collect a vast number of pelts, which would well deserve the attention of those who are called carriers or traders.
3n.

the man in charge of a fur company ' s trading post.

See: storekeeper(def. 2)

Quotations

1823
[He was] a tolerable clerk[,] good trader[,] active and steady[;] will be extremely useful in Red River on account of his influence with the Half breeds.
1856
This is the trading-store. It is always recognisable, if natives are in the neighbourhood, by the bevy of red men that cluster round it, awaiting the coming of the store-keeper or the trader. . . .
1948
All the traders carry 30-30 in stock, and if a man was to run short in the bush for any reason, chances are that the first person he'd meet--white, Indian or half-breed--would have 30-30.
1960
[Trans.] Good Trader, join our dance.
There's Fraser's nose; one glance
Tells us that he will like our little ball.