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hivernant Cdn French, Hist. 
n. a seasoned fur trader or voyageur who spent his winters in the fur country.
See also: winterer (def. 2)
- 1897 Alexander Henry was established as a winterer or hivernant in a post he had built on the Red River of the North.
- 1944 It was at Montreal . . . that the . . . Hudson's Bay Company managed to procure most of the foods . . . required for . . . their . . . hivernants or wintering partners.
- 1954 Fort William became a teeming town with a population of over three thousand persons, in which the hivernants, or winterers, mingled with the mangeurs de lard, or voyageurs from Montreal.
- 1966 There they met the "hivernants" (winterers) from the Far West, received their packs, supplied them with trade goods from Montreal, and returned to Montreal the same season.
- 1897 Alexander Henry was established as a winterer or hivernant in a post he had built on the Red River of the North.