DCHP-3

trading fort

Fur Trade
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a trading post, so called because many early posts were fortified.

See: fort

Quotations

1952
The place is . . . Yellowknife, Hay River and the settlements and trading forts up and down the great water system that joins in the Mackenzie and empties its waters into the Arctic Ocean.
1958
His congregation could be found wherever he happened to be at any time. Stony Indians to the south, Crees to the north and the few whites at the trading forts were his congregation.