Example sentences for: westers

How can you use “westers” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • A longer cruise from the same marina follows the Kaministikwia River to Old Fort William (20 minutes by car), the handsomely reconstructed trading post of the Nor’Westers, intrepid rivals of the Hudson’s Bay Company (see page 16).

  • The Nor’westers commandeered the French system of forts, depots, and canoe brigades; they inter-married with native peoples and produced new clans of so-called Métis.

  • After years of fierce armed struggle for trading posts around Hudson Bay and lakes Winnipeg and Superior, the Nor’westers threw in their lot with the H.B.C.

  • This is the country through which the Nor’Westers’ coureurs de bois paddled their way to the Indian trappers’ remote camps, adopting the natives’ lore for tackling the wilderness, including their snowshoes, toboggans, and birchbark canoes.


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