fur trading post

C8109
concept

A fur trading post is a remote commercial outpost where trappers, Indigenous peoples, and traders exchanged animal pelts for goods such as tools, weapons, textiles, and provisions.

All labels observed (12)

Label Occurrences
fur trading post canonical 14
Hudson's Bay Company trading post 3
former trading post 3

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: fur trading post
Generated description
A fur trading post is a remote commercial outpost where trappers, Indigenous peoples, and traders exchanged animal pelts for goods such as tools, weapons, textiles, and provisions.

Instances (26)

Instance Via concept surface
Fort Alexandria Hudson's Bay Company trading post
Fort Kiowa
Old Fort William reconstructed fur trade post
York Factory
Prairie du Chien, Michigan Territory frontier trading post
Fort Michilimackinac
Fort Orange
Fort Prince of Wales fur trading fort
Fort William
Fort Astoria
Fort George
Grouard, Alberta former trading post
Bowman’s Castle former trading post
Fort Hawkins frontier trading post
Norway House, Manitoba Hudson’s Bay Company trading post
Fort Victoria Hudson's Bay Company trading post
Fort Garry
Fort Nelson Hudson's Bay Company trading post
Ross’s Landing (present-day Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA)
surface form: Ross’s Landing
former riverfront trading post
Mormon Station former trading post
Fort Buenaventura
Adobe Walls frontier trading post site
Fort Ouiatenon
Fort Nisqually
Fort Colvile
Fort Okanogan