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brigade trail 
Hist. a route followed by brigades (def. 2) of pack horses.
See also: brigade (def. 2)
- 1860 At this place [Fort Alexandria, B.C.] is the northern terminus of the Hudson Bay Company's brigade trail, and to this point from the forts still farther north they come in bateaux and canoes.
- 1953 The "brigade" trails of the Hudson's Bay Company . . . occupied a strategic position in the transportation system of British Columbia from 1812 until the 1860's. . . .
- 1967 . . . the Brigade Trail . . . was a pack-horse trail from Fort Okanagan in the Columbia country to Fort Alexandria on the Fraser River in the Cariboo [B.C.], over which trade goods and furs were carried until 1846 when the boundary settlement defined the international border and caused the fur company to adopt a new route.
- 1860 At this place [Fort Alexandria, B.C.] is the northern terminus of the Hudson Bay Company's brigade trail, and to this point from the forts still farther north they come in bateaux and canoes.