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factory † Hist.

n. a fur-trading post, especially one of the larger trans-shipment posts operated by the Hudson's Bay Company, for example, York Factory.
- 1671 (1942) That an account bee taken also . . . of . . . the bills of Ladeing & factoryes.
- 1765 (1933) This factorey Belongd to the French traders of Canaday.
- 1861 They are distributed over 152 trading-posts and factories, scattered at distances of 300 or 400 miles apart over the whole country from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
- 1907 The so-called factories were not places in which fabrics or other goods were manufactured, but more rightly speaking great depots where an entire year's supplies were stored in advance in case of a mishap to either of the ships.
- 1963 However, it may be assumed that the clearing of land and importation of livestock from Moose Factory began soon after the union of 1821.