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fort Fur Trade 
n. a trading post, so called because many early posts were fortified.
See also: fur fort trading fort
- 1670 (1900) The Governor and his Council of the several and respective places where the said Company shall have plantations, forts, factories, colonies, or places of trade within any of the countries, lands or territories hereby granted may have power to judge all persons belonging to the said Governor and Company, or that shall live under them, in all causes, whether civil or criminal, according to the laws of this kingdom, and to execute justice accordingly.
- 1743 (1949) Their has been and is Still men that wou'd undertake such a Land Voyage with good Encouragem't Either to bring them to the English forts to trade; or to give such a Discription of the Country that a Setlement might be made their.
- 1848 (1859) The fort (as all establishments in the Indian country, whether small or great, are called) is a large square, I should think about six or seven acres, inclosed within high stockades, and built on the banks of Hayes River, nearly five miles from its mouth.
- 1938 God's Country . . . even had a language of its own. Civilization became the "Outside" . . . an aggregation of mudded huts a fort. . . .
- 1964 Edmonton's first fair was held in two rough rooms in the old Hudson's Bay Company fort on Oct. 15, 1879.
- 1670 (1900) The Governor and his Council of the several and respective places where the said Company shall have plantations, forts, factories, colonies, or places of trade within any of the countries, lands or territories hereby granted may have power to judge all persons belonging to the said Governor and Company, or that shall live under them, in all causes, whether civil or criminal, according to the laws of this kingdom, and to execute justice accordingly.