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Speaker 1: the early winter of nineteen hundred, Fred McLeod, chief factor

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Speaker 1: But something about this individual was different, not least of

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Speaker 1: as he went. Fred was about to turn the man

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Speaker 1: McClean smith. In nineteen hundred, the Hudson Bay Company or HBC,

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