See also: fur ranch ranch ((1)) ((n.)) (def. 2a)
- 1923  Been a-wonderin' if a fur-farm would pay better on a island in Slave Lake or in Athabasca.
- 1928  The Company can advise you about plans for everything from starting a fur farm on Lake Athabaska to a four-year expedition to the Arctic.
- 1963  For the plan was to transform the pony carcasses into concentrated meal for sale to the fur farms. . . .
2 a large tract in the fur country where fur-bearing animals live in their natural habitat, being trapped in a controlled way under sanctuary conditions.
See also: fur preserve (def. 2)
- 1937  Next in importance as a conservation measure comes the Charlton Island beaver sanctuary, which, although revived in 1934, was nevertheless the first fur farm in Canada, having been established by the Hudson's Bay Company in the year 1851.