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people Fur Trade, Hist. 
n. See 1945 quote.
See also: commissioned gentleman
- 1694 (1929) Today 3 of us was sent over ye river . . . to keep an Eye abroad our people wen[t] a rafting also.
- 1748 . . . two of the People were Kept to Hunting, which term they give to going a Shooting of Partridge. . . .
- 1800 (1820) At these places, most of the property was taken out of the canoes, and carried across the Portages, on the backs of the people.
- 1945 In the records of the Company, any employee from the rank of clerk up, was termed a gentleman. Labourers, hunters, and the like, were referred to as the "people."
- 1694 (1929) Today 3 of us was sent over ye river . . . to keep an Eye abroad our people wen[t] a rafting also.