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Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a trading post used only in winter.
Quotations
1824
Resolved . . . That the winter post of Athabasca River under the Management of William McIntosh C. F. be kept up for ensueing summer attached to the Saskatchewan District.
1897
It was Mr. Reed with his party returning from Fort Fond du Lac (now a small winter post only) to Chippewyan with the last winter's trade.
1953
From the landing they were "toted" up stream three or four miles and put in the winter post.