On Big Stone Lake near the headwaters of the Red River, Robert Dickson, Superintendent of the Western Indian Department of Canada, had a trading post and planned in 1818 to build a fort to be defended by twenty men and two small artillery pieces.

In each of these there was to be a strong military post, and a trading depot to supply the smaller trading houses.

Stolpe speculated that the island may have been an important trading post, prompting him to conduct a series of archeological excavations between 1871-95.

Most imperial powers had not foreseen a need to prepare their colonies for independence ; for example, Britain had given limited self-rule to India and Sri Lanka, while treating British Somaliland as little more than a trading post, while all major decisions for French colonies were made in Paris and Belgium prohibited any self-government up until it suddenly granted independence to its colonies in 1960.

By 1851 the Eagle Station ranch located along the Carson River served as a trading post and stopover for travelers on the California Trail's Carson Branch which ran through Eagle Valley.

The valley and trading post received their name from a bald eagle that was hunted and killed by one of the early settlers and was featured on a wall inside the post.

The Dutch were the first Europeans to settle in present-day Delaware in the Middle region by establishing a trading post at Zwaanendael, near the site of Lewes in 1631.

In 1638 New Sweden, a Swedish trading post and colony, was established at Fort Christina ( now in Wilmington ) by Peter Minuit at the head of a group of Swedes, Finns and Dutch.

In 1798, the company sent him to Red Deer Lake ( in present-day Alberta ) to establish a trading post.

Thompson mapped and established trading posts in Northwestern Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Western Canada ; including Kootenae House and Saleesh House ; the first trading post west of the Rockies in Montana extending North West Company fur trading territories.

This was a response by the North West Company to the plans of John Jacob Astor to send a ship around the Americas to establish a fur trading post.

During Thompson's 1811 voyage down the Columbia River he camped at the junction with the Snake River on July 9, 1811, and erected a pole and a notice claiming the country for Great Britain and stating the intention of the North West Company to build a trading post at the site.

John Alden Shoudy came to the Kittitas Valley in 1871, and purchased a small trading post from Andrew Jackson " A. J.

However, the Portuguese found they could make considerable amounts of gold transporting slaves from one trading post to another, along the Atlantic coast of Africa.

Correctly guessing that this was Hudson Bay, they sought French backing for a plan to set up a trading post on the Bay, thus reducing the cost of moving furs overland.

The Hudson's Bay Company's second inland trading post was established by Samuel Hearne in 1774 in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan.

The early coastal factory ( trading post ) model contrasted with the system of the French, who established an extensive system of inland posts and sent traders to live among the tribes of the region.

The largest settlement was New France, with the towns of Quebec City ( 1608 ) and Montreal ( fur trading post in 1611, Roman Catholic mission established in 1639, and colony founded in 1642 ).

The next to arrive were the Dutch, the British — who set up a trading post in the west coast port of Surat in 1619 — and the French.

* 1949-The HBC moves its trading post from Ward Inlet to Apex

His Columbia River trading post at Fort Astoria ( established in April 1811 ) was the first United States community on the Pacific coast.

As trading became tighter in the petroleum market, and Aston Martin was requiring more time and money, Gauntlett agreed to sell Hays / Pace to the Kuwait Investment Office in September 1983.

To sum things up, the use of money in trading all goods ( capital / labor and consumer ) in all markets ( spot and financial ) combined with profit driven entrepreneurship and Darwinian natural selection in financial markets all combine to make rational economic calculation and allocation the outcome of the capitalist process.

The gallon was removed from the list of legally defined primary units of measure catalogued in the EU directive 80 / 181 / EEC, for trading and official purposes, with effect from 31 December 1994.

So large numbers of Dutch traders / pirates joined their English and French brethren trading on the remote coasts of Hispaniola.

* Raj Rajaratnam / Galleon Group, Anil Kumar, and Rajat Gupta insider trading cases

" and with oil trading in the $ 12 / barrel range, David South offered $ 1000 to any economist who would bet with him that the price of oil would be greater than $ 12 / barrel in 2010.

When World War I started, Liberia declared war on Germany and expelled its resident German merchants, who constituted the country's largest investors and trading partners – Liberia suffered economically as a result. http :// www. globalsecurity. org / military / ops / grebo2. htm

It is currently used in electronic health record systems as well as by multiple banking networks and online trading / investment services.

While the CIA Factbook in 2006 stated that the " US is the only industrialized nation that does not mainly use the metric system ", ( in addition to non-industrialised Burma / Myanmar, Liberia ), the actual situation, however, is more complicated than the CIA Factbook would suggest-in the United Kingdom, for example, although metric is the official system for most regulated trading by weight or measure purposes, the pint is the official unit for milk in returnable bottles and for draught beer and cider in British pubs, and miles, yards and feet remain the official units for road signage.

It is known that ancient Nubia / Axum traded with India, and there is evidence that ships from Northeast Africa may have sailed back and forth between India / Sri Lanka and Nubia trading goods and even to Persia, Himyar and Rome.

East-west trade route went from Truso and Wiskiauten ( a rival centre in Prussia which sprang up at the south-western corner of the Courish Lagoon ), along the Baltic Sea to Jutland, and from there up the Slien inlet to Haithabu / Hedeby, a large trading center in Jutland.

In Australia, the rights to the Magnavox brand are not owned by Philips but by Mistral Ltd, a Hong Kong trading company that uses it to sell audio / video equipment of a different make.

The Internet offers many resources to any collector: personal sites presenting one's collection, online collectible catalogs, dealer / shops websites displaying their merchandise, Internet trading platforms, collector clubs, autograph club, collector forums and collector mailing lists.

After the United States became independent, trading with the Indians / Native Americans was nominally regulated by the Trade and Intercourse Act, first passed on July 22, 1790.

Thus, in the example, if Lloyds TSB are trading at 411p, then for every day I keep the bet open I am charged finance cost to be 7 % (( 411p x 10 ) * 7 % / 365 ) = £ 0. 78821 ( or 78. 8p )

Over time the number of competing trading companies diminished, beginning with Ruge ’ s bankruptcy in 1888 followed by the withdrawal of the DHPG from trading in Tuvalu in 1889 / 90.

Without trade, its cost to make a shirt was 1 shoe ; by trading, its cost per shirt can go as low as 1 / 2 shoe depending on how much trade occurs.

* Type trading card: Times New Roman / Albertus ( Monotype )

By trading optimality, completeness, accuracy, and / or precision for speed, a heuristic can quickly produce a solution that is good enough for solving the problem at hand, as opposed to finding all exact solutions in a prohibitively long time.

The roadhouse at Seldom Seen was trading in March 2005 from a caravan, and now has a more permanent structure.