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pemmican post Fur Trade, Hist. 
a meat post where pemmican (def. 1) was prepared and stored for supplying to the trading posts.
See also: post
- 1810 (1916) [Cumberland House . . . serves as the general Depot for all the dried Provisions made of the meat and fat of the Bison under the name of Pemican, a wholesome, well tasted nutritious food, upon which all persons engaged in the Furr Trade mostly depend for their subsistence during the open season.]
- 1935 . . . a long rest was ordered near a cluster of log huts, the winter headquarters of the Métis hunters from Fort Qu' Appelle--the Company's "pemmican post" a hundred miles to the north-east.
- 1953 In the early days when Churchill was a fur highway, Green Lake . . . was a pemmican station.
- 1810 (1916) [Cumberland House . . . serves as the general Depot for all the dried Provisions made of the meat and fat of the Bison under the name of Pemican, a wholesome, well tasted nutritious food, upon which all persons engaged in the Furr Trade mostly depend for their subsistence during the open season.]