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    A coureur des bois (French: [kuʁœʁ de bwɑ]; lit. '"runner of the woods"') or coureur de bois (French: [kuʁœʁ də bwɑ]; plural: coureurs de(s) bois) were...
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    built forts and frequently negotiated with the Native Americans. The coureurs des bois (literally "runners of the woods") played an important part, though...
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    furs and trade goods. The coureurs de bois came before the voyageurs, and partially replaced them. For those coureurs des bois who continued, the term picked...
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    Hudson's Bay Company, ironically aided by French coureurs des bois, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers, frustrated with French license rules...
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    (Nicollet), Sieur de Belleborne (1598 – 29 October 1642) was a French coureur des bois noted for exploring Lake Michigan, Mackinac Island, Green Bay, and...
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    Jacques La Ramée (June 8, 1784 – 1821) was a French-Canadian and Métis coureur des bois, frontiersman, trapper, fur trader, hunter, explorer, and mountain...
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  • broad categories of skier: Coureur des Bois (who start out before dawn to ski the entire distance; named after the coureur des bois) and Tourer (who start...
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  • present-day Simcoe County, Ontario. Here he learned the skills of a coureur des bois. In 1646, Groseilliers fought with the Huron against the Iroquois....
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    February 1668 – 12 May 1745) was a French Canadian explorer, sergeant and coureur des bois. He is the first known European to visit the Boundary Waters region...
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    "Grizzly" Adams Overmountain Men James Ohio Pattie Scottish Indian trade Coureur des bois Voyageurs Bandeirantes Promyshlenniki see a) Oregon boundary dispute—Britain...
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    (1636/1640–1710) was a French coureur des bois and explorer in New France. He is often linked to his brother-in-law Médard des Groseilliers. The decision...
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    The first francophones to enter the region were French Canadian coureurs des bois employed in the North American fur trade during the 18th century....
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  • France, the Marquis de Denonville dispatched a scouting party of 28 coureur des bois, under the command of Daniel Greysolon, Sieur du Lhut and Nicolas d'Ailleboust...
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    New France and a large expansion of the fur trade using Canadian coureurs des bois. He died before his second recall to France. Frontenac was born in...
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    M-82 Newaygo's recorded history goes back to the 1600s and the French coureur des bois (independent trappers) and, later, fur company voyageurs that travelled...
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    such as marriage à la façon du pays, a marriage between tradesmen (coureur des bois) and Native women. This tradition was seen as a fundamental social...
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  • French, spoken in Michigan by descendants of habitants, voyageurs and coureurs des bois in the Pays d'en Haut Métis French, spoken in North Dakota by Métis...
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  • Sainte Marie, but very soon he turned himself to fur trade and became a coureur des bois. He was fluent in several Native languages, which was crucial to his...
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    Tadoussac. French explorers, like Samuel de Champlain, voyageurs, and Coureur des bois, such as Étienne Brûlé, Radisson, La Salle, and Le Sueur, while seeking...
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    colonies in Canada, particularly for their role in assisting European coureur des bois and voyageurs in the exploration of the continent during the North...
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    Rubaboo is a common stew or porridge consumed by coureurs des bois and voyageurs (French fur traders) and Métis people of North America. This dish is...
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    colonies in Canada, particularly for their role in assisting European coureur des bois and voyageurs in their explorations of the continent during the North...
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    Quebec in 1608, independent French-Canadian traders commonly known as coureurs des bois spread out and built a fur trade empire in the St. Lawrence basin...
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    Then Came Bronson. Robert Conrad also had worn one in his role of coureur des bois in the epic TV series Centennial. Bruce Weitz's character Mick Belker...
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    The first settler to set foot in what is Now St. Charles was French Coureur des Bois Pierre Pertuis, who moved to the area after having purchased land from...
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    was first settled its many waterways were used by the voyagers and Coureur des bois to trade their goods. Thunder Bay has a central location within Canada...
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    rituals in everyday life in New France and Acadia. The folklore of the coureur des bois and voyageurs has been much studied, particularly the chansons (songs)...
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    help the French adapt to life in North America. These men, known as coureurs des bois (runners of the woods), were the first European mushers in North America...
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    traders after the fall of the French Empire in Quebec, and many of the coureur des bois became voyageurs for the British. In 1612, the Compagnie de Rouen received...
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    Lagimodière was originally from nearby Saint-Ours; he had become a coureur des bois employed in the fur trade by the Hudson's Bay Company in Rupert's Land...
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