trading/ trading schooner
trade [They] hired the schooner to go tradin' [i.e. travelling to the harbours in Placentia Bay selling supplies and collecting fish]. During all the years I was trading, I collected and bought sun cured salt codfish. When ready to sail, a trading schooner would be a floating business operation...
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| Summary: | trade [They] hired the schooner to go tradin' [i.e. travelling to the harbours in Placentia Bay selling supplies and collecting fish]. During all the years I was trading, I collected and bought sun cured salt codfish. When ready to sail, a trading schooner would be a floating business operation on a small scale. In later years, as skipper of a trader, I visited all the harbours and coves where inhabitants lived from St Lawrence on the west to Placentia on the east. Used I and Sup Not used Not used |
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