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servant Hist. 
n. an employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, specifically one other than an officer holding a commission from the company.
See also: Company man
- 1690 (1752) If any two or three of our servants shall shew their forwardness to go upon new discoveries, we require you to encourage the undertaking, and upon their good success, to allow them such advance of wages or gratuity for their pains, as you in your discretion shall find convenient.
- 1775 (1934) These losses together with their payment not only runs away with all the Profit, but renders the Company's Servants the make game and laughing stock of every trader from Canady.
- 1880 The Fort at lesser Slave Lake consists of shop, store-houses and dwellings of the Company's servants, ranged in a quadrangle.
- 1960 The traders and their "servants" liked the land and the free life and, mingling with the Indians and with Metis bands, within a generation formed a new and dominant element, the mixed bloods. . . .
- 1690 (1752) If any two or three of our servants shall shew their forwardness to go upon new discoveries, we require you to encourage the undertaking, and upon their good success, to allow them such advance of wages or gratuity for their pains, as you in your discretion shall find convenient.