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Orcadians - Wikipedia
Orcadians, also known as Orkneymen, are an ethnic group native to the Orkney Islands, who speak an Orcadian dialect of the Scots language, a West Germanic ...
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Orkneymen | The Canadian Encyclopedia
Inhabitants of the Orkney Islands, sometimes known as Orcadians, have been characterized as farmers who fish: they dwell on some of the most fertile land in the ...
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ORKNEYMEN definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
2 senses: → See Orkneyman a native or inhabitant of Orkney.... Click for more definitions.
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Orkneyman
Orkneyman (ˈɔːknɪmən) = Orcadian n.; a native or inhabitant of the Orkney Islands.1775 Hearne & Turnor Jrnls. (1934) 191, I have interfered so far as to ask what encouragement they required to which the Orkneymen seem'd to intermate that 12L per annum would enduce them to be active & useful. 1842 Tr...
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Stories of Orkneymen in the Hudson's Bay Company
For every John Rae, there were hundreds of unnamed or forgotten Orkneymen who worked the traplines, built outposts, and guided expeditions into ...
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Orkneyman, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun Orkneyman is in the mid 1700s. OED's earliest evidence for Orkneyman is from 1730, in Baker's Chron. Kings of England ...
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Wyre, Orkney
In his autobiography he said of himself - "I'm an Orkneyman, a good Scandinavian", and commented that some of his happiest childhood years were spent here
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Scots and Orkneymen in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1780-1821 by ...
In the late 18th century many Orkneymen temporarily left their homelands to work for the Hudson's Bay Company in the sub-arctic territory of Rupert's Land.
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Orkneymen of the Red River Settlement and Winnipeg - About Orkney
The first settlers arrived in the Red River at the end of August 1812. The group included four Orkneymen, John Cooper and Magnus Isbister, both in their ...
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ORKNEYMAN definition in American English - Collins Dictionary
A native or inhabitant of Orkney.... Click for pronunciations, examples sentences, video.
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Orkneyman - DCHP-3
n. a native of the Orkney Islands of Scotland serving in the fur trade, especially with the Hudson's Bay Company.
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James Johnston (merchant)
James Johnston was a cousin of Joseph Isbister (1710−1771), who in 1740 became the first Orkneyman to receive a governorship in the Hudson's Bay Company
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Vinland (novel)
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The novel's protagonist is Ranald Sigmundson, an Orkneyman who journeys to Vinland as a youth, fights in the battle of Clontarf, and has other
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rabbit
▪ I. rabbit, n.1 (ˈræbɪt) Forms: 5–6 rab(b)ette, 5–7 rabet, 6–8 rabbet, (6 -atte), 7 rabytt, 8 -it, 8– rabbit. [app. of Northern French origin: cf. Walloon robett (Remacle). The primitive seems to occur in Flem. robbe (Kilian, De Bo; the latter also gives ribbe, rubbe), dim. robbeke(n; the ultimate ...
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Halkett boat
Orkneyman John Rae, known by the Inuit as (, "He who takes long strides"), was a Hudson's Bay Company surgeon who became a surveyor of the Canadian Arctic
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