a vessel carrying furs, usually from Canada to Europe.
- 1859  (1890)  I left Quebec in the "Isaac Todd," fur ship, with a valuable cargo, under convoy with the fall fleet numbering about forty sails, from Bique.
- 1936  Now the red ensign with its white HBC initialling was hoisted to her mainmast-head and alterations were begun for her new employment as a fur ship.