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Siberia of the fur trade Hist. 
the name given by Simon Fraser (in 1808) to what is now the central and northern parts of the interior of British Columbia, which comprised a department of both the Northwest Company and the Hudson's Bay Company and was one of the great areas of the fur trade.
See also: New Caledonia (def. 2)
- 1960 The country went under the general heading of "New Caledonia," a name given to it by Simon Fraser of the North West Company in 1808, but to the servants of the Hudson's Bay Company, the successors to the N. W.Co., it had a far more sinister name--"the Siberia of the fur trade"--on account of its remoteness from civilization. . . .
- 1960 The country went under the general heading of "New Caledonia," a name given to it by Simon Fraser of the North West Company in 1808, but to the servants of the Hudson's Bay Company, the successors to the N. W.Co., it had a far more sinister name--"the Siberia of the fur trade"--on account of its remoteness from civilization. . . .