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n. (context British English) (alternative spelling of peddler English)
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Pedlar may refer to:
- The British English form and original spelling of peddler
Pedlar is a term used in Canadian history to refer to English-speaking independent fur traders from Montreal who competed with the Hudson's Bay Company in western Canada from about 1770 to 1803. After 1779 they were mostly absorbed by the North West Company. The name was first used by the Hudson's Bay Company to refer French coureurs des bois who travelled inland to trade with the Indians as opposed to the HBC policy of building posts on Hudson Bay and waiting for the Indians to bring furs to them.
The Pedlars were important for three reasons. They were involved in the transfer of woodland skills from the French-Canadians to the English-speakers who dominated the trade in the nineteenth century. Whenever we see English or Scots names in the interior we must always remember that most of the voyageurs, guides and interpreters were French-Canadian or Métis. Knowledge of the country came ultimately from the native people through the Métis or interpreters. Second, it was their competition that forced the HBC to build posts inland which, after 1821, turned the HBC monopoly into an informal government for western Canada, which in turn led to the confederation of western and eastern Canada. Third, the Pedlars opened up much of the country west of Lake Winnipeg, although by the time trade approached the Rocky Mountains the Pedlars had been absorbed into the North West Company.
Usage examples of "pedlar".
There was not a merchant from the bazaars but had had reason to appreciate his presence, either by friendly gossip over a cup of coffee, or by biting remarks in Arabic, when they lied to him, or by the sweep of his stick over the mastaba and through the chattels of some vile-mouthed pedlar who insulted English ladies whom he was escorting through the bazaar.
CHAPTER VIII THE PEDLAR OF CRUCIFIXES Issacher, as well as being a cheerful, loquacious fellow and of ready wits, was so exceedingly kind as to support my weight upon his sparer frame.
Then came the gracious Princess of Pleasure and her daughter Folly, leading her subjects - players of dice, cards and back-gammon, conjurers, bards, minstrels, storytellers, drunkards, bawds, balladmongers and pedlars with their trinkets in countless number, to be at length instruments of punishment to the damned fools.
He is usually some Dervish pedlar or merchant trading with the tribes of the Soudan, who slips into Wadi Halfa or Assouan or Suakin and undertakes the work.
So as the caravan left the Nile behind and began winding through the 2,400 wards and quarters of Cairo, it was carefully followed by Janissaries, not to mention hundreds of beggars, Vagabonds, pedlars, courtesans, and curious boys.
Peking by die Bridge of Heaven is home to a modey assortment of pedlars, acrobats, street performers of every irnagin-able kind, and all sorts of other denizens of die River and Lake world.
Tush, man, better give the army to be made merchandise of by Venetian skippers and Lombardy pedlars, than trust it to the Grand Master of St.
The bumpkin Binaire, delegate from VoGrance, stood up to drivel on at length about some minor question of representation chiefly relating to rural itinerants pedlars, Turos, players and their disreputable ilk.
Costermongers, hawkers, and pedlars, a class of workers who live from hand to mouth more than those of any other class, form the highest percentage of those in the lunatic asylums.
He wore a round hat with a narrow brim and he was among every kind of man, herder and bullwhacker and drover and freighter and miner and hunter and soldier and pedlar and gambler and drifter and drunkard and thief and he was among the dregs of the earth in beggary a thousand years and he was among the scapegrace scions of eastern dynasties and in all that motley assemblage he sat by them and yet alone as if he were some other sort of man entire and he seemed little changed or none in all these years.
How life once centred around the village square with its well and ovens, the store and cafe where they could listen to the radio all day while they watched the passing activity, the cameleers, the pedlars on their loaded donkey carts, the knife and scissor grinders—the veiled women going about their daily tasks.
All but the common hall and dortoir for the pedlars and pilgrims and birds of passage was given over to the party.
Again dust, bricks and mortar, again the stench from the shops and pot-houses, again the drunken men, the Finnish pedlars and half-broken-down cabs.
Hornblower mapped out in his mind a formal letter to the Governor in which he would suggest that a few pedlars be sent into the French camp ostensibly to sell luxuries but really to distribute these pamphlets.
From noon onward the horse-fair was marked out in lots for stalls and booths, and the abbey stewards were standing by to guide pedlars and merchants to their places, and levy the tolls due on the amount of merchandise they brought.