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trading station Fur Trade, Obs. 
a building or a group of buildings serving as a trading centre for a fur company in a certain region.
See also: trading post (def. 1)
- 1896 The inhabitants of the trading stations during the winter of '93-'94 were upon the verge of starvation themselves, and certainly could not have relieved the natives in case of famine.
- 1897 (1908) For nearly two hundred years it had been the practice of the Hudson's Bay Company to send out from England every year one or two small sailing vessels with supplies to their trading stations on Hudson Bay.
- 1896 The inhabitants of the trading stations during the winter of '93-'94 were upon the verge of starvation themselves, and certainly could not have relieved the natives in case of famine.