DCHP-2
master pedlar Fur Trade, Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a stock-holding partner in the Montreal-based fur companies, especially the North West Company, who represented the company the year round at the trading posts in the fur country.
See also: master North West Company pedlar wintering partner (def. 1)
- 1954 The first master pedlar to reach the Saskatchewan was Franceway, who seems to have gone there in 1767. . . .
- 1955 But, before the Company could catch its breath, the "Master Pedlars" had arrived. These were fur-traders, chiefly Scottish-born, operating out of Montreal.
- 1954 The first master pedlar to reach the Saskatchewan was Franceway, who seems to have gone there in 1767. . . .