Coureur de bois
A coureur des bois (French pronunciation: [kuʁœʁ de bwa], runner of the woods) was a French Canadian man who engaged in the fur trade. They trapped and traded the hides of many animals, especially beaver. The coureurs des bois worked in eastern North America from the late 1700s, moving up toward Hudson Bay and across the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean by the 19th century. Many worked for the Hudson's Bay Company of Great Britain.
Coureur De Bois Media
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Coureur de Bois in typical dress. These Frenchmen became involved in the 1650s in the fur trade. Woodcut by Arthur Heming (1870 - 1940).
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Depiction of Samuel de Champlain (1574–1635) by Theophile Hamel (1870)
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Map of Great Lakes Region of New France, 1688 (by Vincenzo Coronelli 1650–1718)
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Radisson & Groseillers Established the Fur Trade in the Great North West, 1662, by Archibald Bruce Stapleton (1917–1950)
Edict of the King of France in 1681, limiting fur trade participation
'Bourgeois' W---r, and His Squaw (A French trapper and a Native American woman) 1858–1860, by Alfred Jacob Miller (1810–1874)
Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix (1682–1761)
