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outpost

• 1 n. Fur Trade, Hist. a trading post in the interior; especially a temporary trading station dependent on a larger and more permanent post.

  See also: flying post  winter outpost  winter post  

  • 1820  (1938)  There is an Outpost from Fort Vermillion about to be established close to Colville House. . . .
  • 1897  [I] made up the assortment of goods for the outposts, equipped the summer men, clerks, etc.
  • 1913  For instance, Egg Lake was an outpost of Fort Pelly, and Waterhen of Manitobah Post. There was an outpost of Shoal River at Duck Bay.
  • 1965  Norway House was the Old Jack River outpost of the Selkirk settlers.

• 2 n. Alta, Hist. See quote at outpost hospital.

  See also: outpost hospital (see quote)  

  • 1955  Accident and emergency cases--for which, in previous years, there was often little hope--received immediate treatment at the nearest Outpost.