nor-westers

Updated: April 30, 2025

At last the Nor-Westers' Fort William brigade with its sixty men and numerous well-loaded canoes whose cargoes had been the bone of contention between Hudson's Bay and Nor'-Westers at Seven Oaks arrived at Fort Douglas. The newcomers were surprised to find us in possession of the enemy's fort.

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Lords of the North

So that Monsoons, Pampas, Nor-Westers, Harmattans, Trades; any wind but the Levanter and Simoon, might blow Moby Dick into the devious zig-zag world-circle of the Pequod's circumnavigating wake.

Herman Melville - Moby Dick: or, the White Whale

Let him seek the rafters of the Nor-Westers' fort in the new walls of Fort Douglas! Pembina, too, had fallen before the Hudson's Bay men. Since the coming of the great governor, nothing could stand before the English. But wait! It was not all over! The war drum was beating in the tents of all the Bois-Brulés!

Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut - Lords of the North