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[ noun ] the month following September and preceding November
Synonyms Used in print (John Harnsberger and Robert P. Wilkins,...)The grant , which stretched southward to Lake_Traverse - the headwaters of the Red - was made in May , 1811 , and by October of that year a small group of Scots was settling for the winter at York_Factory on Hudson_Bay . By October the little colony about Fort_Douglas ( present-day Winnipeg ) numbered 100 . Accordingly Selkirk 's agents ordered the settlers to move north , and by October , John_Halkett had torn_down both posts , floating the timber to `` the Forks '' in rafts . After heavy rains and an onslaught of mice , snow fell on October 15 , 1825 , and remained on the ground through a winter so cold that the ice on the Red was five feet thick . (U.S. Reports. Volume 366. Cases Adjudged in the...)The Government submitted its proposed decree on October 25 , 1957 . |
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