DCHP-2

Siberia of the fur trade Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 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)