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country produce Fur Trade, Hist.

• 1a all local produce of a region except furs.

  • 1822  (1940)  That the following prices be allowed for Country produce . . . Birch Bottom Bark 3s. . . .
  • 1963  The "Ocean Nymph" was piloted out of Churchill River . . . when the furs, oil, and country produce (including goose feathers and quills) were loaded on board.

• 1b loosely, local produce in general, including furs.

  • 1966  Trading with the Moravian Mission at the permanent establishment protected the people from dealing with fly-by-night traders who sometimes cheated them, and paid for country produce in rum.

• 2 game and other food available from the forests and streams of the country.

  See also: country provisions  

  • 1907  These people were brought up on country produce: i.e., fish and flesh, therefore found it no hardship to be without flour, etc.,--the white man's food.
  • 1966  The food stocks brought in canoe and portage from Fort Garry in those decades were meagre enough and had all to be supplemented by "country produce."