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Record 1 2010-05-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • National History
  • Currency and Foreign Exchange
DEF

a unit of exchange equivalent to the value of one prime beaver pelt, used in buying furs and bartering provisions, more usually referred to by trappers as a skin.

CONT

The "made beaver", established as a standard unit of value in the fur trade, was equivalent to a single pelt in good condition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Histoires nationales
  • Politique monétaire et marché des changes
CONT

L'unité de monnaie s’appelle [au Canada] un plue : le plue représente la valeur d’une peau de castor qu'on estime 4 à 5 francs.

OBS

Époque datant de 1847. Unité émise par la Compagnie de la Baie d’Hudson.

Spanish

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