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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Fur Trade
a building or a group of buildings serving as a trading centre for a fur company in a certain region.
Quotations
1820
At half past three we started and at half past four arrived at Bas de la Riviere where the North West had a trading Post, now become Hudson Bay's.
1907
At these places are trading posts where they barter and sell their winter's catch, get new supplies for another year, and load their canoes again in September for another nine of ten months in the Far North Wilds.
1965
In the bay areas, many live up to 500 miles from a trading post. . . .
2
a store operated by a private merchant who engages in a certain amount of barter, usually in a frontier community.
See: trading store(def. 2)
Quotations
1965
Stan opened a trading-post and garage at this out of the way location 30 years ago.