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leather brigade Fur Trade, Hist.

• a special party which carried buffalo, caribou, and moose hides to the New Caledonian posts of the Hudson's Bay Co. from the prairies.

  See also: leather  Leather Pass  

  • 1836  (1932)  . . . no accounts having been received of the leather party, he determined to embark for his destination.
  • 1924  The leather brigade of earlier times used the Peace, Parsnip and Pack rivers as their route from Chipewyan to B.C. points. . . .
  • 1934  Fort Edmonton . . . was the starting point for the important "Leather" brigade using pack horses, canoes and boats, and carrying the necessary buffalo and moose hides to the Far West for making the hunter's shoes, without which the Indians refused to hunt.