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first goose North 
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See also: goose hunt
- 1888 (1948) On May 5, 1888, the first goose was shot, "the successful marksman receiving, according to immemorial custom at the Hudson's Bay establishments, a present of a pound each of the two luxuries of the country, tea and tobacco."
- 1941 First Goose--At the Bay posts where the geese usually came in thousands, it was an old custom to reward the hunters who brought in the first goose in the spring with a payment of five shillings or one fathom of tobacco.
- 1888 (1948) On May 5, 1888, the first goose was shot, "the successful marksman receiving, according to immemorial custom at the Hudson's Bay establishments, a present of a pound each of the two luxuries of the country, tea and tobacco."