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    hivernants. With the ability to vacation abroad (or domestically if they were French) for months on end (usually October until May), these hivernants...
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    This hunt was smaller than the summer hunt as many of the hunters, the hivernants or winterers, who had taken part of the summer hunt leave the settlements...
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    the posts to farther away French outposts. These men were known as the hivernants (winterers). They also helped negotiate trade in indigenous communities...
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    known by their diet and referred to as mangeurs du lard ('pork-eaters'). Hivernants, or wintering servants, who paddled canoes from the Great Lakes to the...
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    Wikimedia Commons Conservation and management in the French sub-Antarctic islands and surrounding seas Instantanés, 37° Sud — Blog d'un hivernant à Amsterdam...
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    (1972). Répartition géographique et importance numérique des anatidés hivernants en Algérie. Le Gerfaut, 69 : 239–251. Krissat, K. & Horr, K. (1976). Les...
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  • and the gamblers", the majority of visitors to Cannes are "émigrés and hivernants — people who leave England in order to escape paying taxes, and who are...
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    the oldest, was originally the wintering home of Métis buffalo hunters (hivernants). A mission was established in 1873 by Father André O.M.I. after Métis...
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  • Laurent de Grandin were founded by French Métis hivernants from the Red River settlement. Hivernants were hunters and trappers who spent the winter on...
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    Métis from the Red River settlement in Manitoba. Many began as Métis hivernants buffalo hunting camps from the 1840s to the 1870s. Lebret, Saskatchewan...
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    valleys and long alkali marshes, were eventually pursued by the Métis "hivernants" who based their winter operations out of Round Plain, south of present-day...
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  • the son-in-law of Cuthbert Grant, a hunt and trading chief of numerous hivernant villages, and the patriarch of St. Francois Xavier. Trusted by First Nations...
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    opened a trading post in 1871 at Wood Mountain, Saskatchewan then a Métis hivernant settlement. He married Marie Ouellette in 1873 who bore him a son Albert...
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  • America History of Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Longshoremen, 1863–1963 Hivernants Hopewell tradition Hudson's Bay Company Hul'qumi'num Treaty Group Igloo...
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