1897  Alexander Henry was established as a winterer or hivernant in a post he had built on the Red River of the North.
1944  It was at Montreal . . . that the . . . Hudson's Bay Company managed to procure most of the foods . . . required for . . . their . . . hivernants or wintering partners.
1954  Fort William became a teeming town with a population of over three thousand persons, in which the hivernants, or winterers, mingled with the mangeurs de lard, or voyageurs from Montreal.
1966  There they met the "hivernants" (winterers) from the Far West, received their packs, supplied them with trade goods from Montreal, and returned to Montreal the same season.