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mission station 
1 † the headquarters of a church mission among the Indians or Eskimos.
- 1844 (1955) The existing missionary stations are as follows. . . .
- 1873 (1966) . . . Prince Albert . . . is occupied as a Mission Station by the Presbyterians.
- 1897 On the morning following our arrival at the Grand Rapid, being the 4th of June, a number of mission scows, loaded with goods for Chippewyan and other mission stations, arrived.
2 Hist. a meeting-place where itinerant preachers held periodic religious services in the backwoods or bush, as for the men of the early lumber camps.
- 1947 Before that time there were only mission "stations" in the district. . . .
- 1844 (1955) The existing missionary stations are as follows. . . .