DCHP-3

trading station

Fur Trade, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a building or a group of buildings serving as a trading centre for a fur company in a certain region.

See: trading post(def. 1)

Quotations

1896
The inhabitants of the trading stations during the winter of '93-'94 were upon the verge of starvation themselves, and certainly could not have relieved the natives in case of famine.
1897
For nearly two hundred years it had been the practice of the Hudson's Bay Company to send out from England every year one or two small sailing vessels with supplies to their trading stations on Hudson Bay.