Word: clerke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...post at remote and tiny Wabowden, Manitoba, the Hudson's Bay Company had a new fur-trade clerk. Rupert Brace Tinling, 21-year-old Royal Canadian Navy veteran from Winnipeg, had signed for a three-year apprenticeship. He liked fishing and hunting; he would have ample opportunity for both. Besides, his mother said, "he'd rather wear a parka and old trousers than the best dress suit...
...clerk will soon get into the routine of helping with breakfast (canned grapefruit juice, canned butter, toast made from bread which Bell baked himself, canned bacon, powdered eggs and coffee) and cleaning up afterwards; of replenishing the coal supply and providing water from blocks of lake ice; of serving Eskimos who mush in from trapping posts by komatik (dog sled...
Eskimos call at the post about once a fortnight, bringing Arctic foxes. While the huskies eat, the post manager settles accounts for the furs brought in, offers advice on supplies for the next trip. The clerk sells essentials: 30-30 rifles and ammunition, all-steel traps, motorboats costing up to $4,000, tea and tobacco (which the Eskimos love), and beyond that, "anything up to nylons...
...Government first heard about the Russian espionage last autumn from Igor Gouzenko, a cipher clerk in the Soviet Embassy at Ottawa. Why he tattled, the Government did not say. But he named names, produced documents, and pointed to Nicolai Zabotin, the Embassy's military attaché, as the spy ring's head. He said that Zabotin, in the best spy manner, used a bogus name: "Grant...
...Emma Woikin, a young (25), good-looking cipher clerk in the External Affairs Department. She is a Doukhobor from Saskatchewan, of Russian parentage. Said the report: she gave Zabotin "the contents of secret telegrams to which she had access...