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trading fort Fur Trade 
a trading post, so called because many early posts were fortified.
See also: fort
- 1952 The place is . . . Yellowknife, Hay River and the settlements and trading forts up and down the great water system that joins in the Mackenzie and empties its waters into the Arctic Ocean.
- 1958 His congregation could be found wherever he happened to be at any time. Stony Indians to the south, Crees to the north and the few whites at the trading forts were his congregation.
- 1952 The place is . . . Yellowknife, Hay River and the settlements and trading forts up and down the great water system that joins in the Mackenzie and empties its waters into the Arctic Ocean.