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Fur Trade

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the room in a trading post (def. 1) where the actual bartering takes place.

See: Indian hall,Indian shop,Indian storehouse,trade room,trading post(def. 1),trading shop,trading store(def. 1)

Quotations

1697, 1929

Received some goods

1964

Completed phases include . . . Rocky Mountain House stockade (the trading room will also be built this year).

<i>c</i>1776

. . . in the evening the drum is beat upon the works to give notice the trading room is going to be shut. . . .

1848

Thus an Indian arrives at a fort with a bundle of furs, with which he proceeds to the Indian trading-room.

1921

If, in spite of all these precautions, the Indians either in the trading room or Indian room grew so violent as to be really dangerous, the traders could fire down upon them from loopholes in the ceiling.