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Yankee pedlar Hist. 
an American trader, especially on the Pacific Coast; the vessel of such a trader.
See also: Boston pedlar
- 1937 . . . the Company did not have a monopoly of the trade, as there are, in the Fort Langley Journal, 1827-1830, and other material, many complaints about the American vessels--the "Yankee Pedlars" as the Hudson's Bay Co.'s employees called them--selling goods to Indians at lower prices than those charged by the Company, and paying higher prices for furs.
- 1963 "Yankee" peddlers brought over the first scythes. . . .
- 1937 . . . the Company did not have a monopoly of the trade, as there are, in the Fort Langley Journal, 1827-1830, and other material, many complaints about the American vessels--the "Yankee Pedlars" as the Hudson's Bay Co.'s employees called them--selling goods to Indians at lower prices than those charged by the Company, and paying higher prices for furs.