Note 13 — Chapter XVI · [1] FIRST STAY AT FORT UNION, FROM JUNE 24TH TO JULY 6TH [1833]

The British companies distinguished between "winterers"—old experienced employés, who devoted their entire time to the business of the company, and who were hardened to privations—and mangeurs de lard ("pork-eaters"), who were employed only for the summer months, chiefly in transporting the canoe loads from Montreal to the Upper Country and return. See F. J. Turner, "The Fur Trade in Wisconsin," in Wisconsin Historical Society Proceedings, 1889, pp. 78, 79.—Ed.