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?1792 in List of Servants in Hudson's Bay 1791–3 (Hudson's Bay Company Arch., Arch. of Manitoba, A.30/5) f. 40 Left as Summer Master at that Settlement.

1837 A. McDonald Let. 25 Jan. in Washington Hist. Q. (1908) 2 254 Old Rivet is the summer master & Deputy Gov'r of Colville—so you all cannot say that our bill of expense for clerks here is extravagant.

1913 I. Cowie Company of Adventurers 228 Many of these journals were kept by a ‘summer master’, who was quite often a very illiterate laborer, who could barely scrawl phonetics in the book during the real master's absence on the annual voyage to and from headquarters with the furs and for the outfit.

1967 A. M. Johnson Sask. Jrnls. in Publ. Hudson's Bay Rec. Soc. 26 p. xxviii He sent Bird to Buckingham House with instructions to leave the summer master in charge there.

2007 B. Belyea Dark Storm moving West 102/1 Fidler himself had been listed as a labourer and had acted as a summer master.