coureur de bois in English
noun
1
(in Canada and the northern US) a woodsman or trader of French origin.
In addition to the habitants, there were the coureurs de bois , traders who negotiated for furs with the Indians in the upper reaches of the Ottawa River and in the Great Lakes.
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1. In Saskatchewan, as across all of the boreal, home to some of our most famous rivers, an incredible network of rivers and lakes that every school-age child learns about, the Peace, the Athabasca, the Churchill here, the Mackenzie, and these networks were the historical routes for the voyageur and the coureur de bois, the first non-aboriginal explorers of Northern Canada that, taking from the First Nations people, used canoes and paddled to explore for a trade route, a Northwest Passage for the fur trade.