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Record 1 1985-04-01

English

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OBS

ethnic designation of a number of servants and some officers in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. The Orkney Islands lie off the north coast of Scotland and were the source of much of the Company's manpower. (The Fur Trade since 1787.)

OBS

Canada's Visual History Series, National Museum of Man 1985 p. 17).

French

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OBS

La source principale d'employés européens de la compagnie était l'archipel des Orcades au nord de l'Écosse... Les Orcadiens étaient bien adaptés à une existence rude et spartiate dans le dur climat du nord. Histoire et Archéologie no. 69, Environnement Canada.

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