trading independent of the fur companies.
- 1909  At the other gibbous horn of this Athens of the Athabasca rise the steeples and convent-school of the Roman Church, with the free-trading-post of Colin Fraser.
- 1928  "Not that he considered free trading a great sin, as we do now."
- 1960  This free trading . . . had as its accompaniment acts of lawlessness and violence.