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    colonies in Canada, particularly for their role in assisting European coureurs des bois and voyageurs in their explorations of the continent during the...
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  • Kansas Mets Hall of Famer Jerry Grote passes away Voormalig Grand Prix coureur Pat Hennen (70) overleden (in Dutch) New Orleans singer Clarence 'Frogman'...
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  • Giles Mets Hall of Famer Jerry Grote passes away Voormalig Grand Prix coureur Pat Hennen (70) overleden (in Dutch) New Orleans singer Clarence 'Frogman'...
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    Missionary groups arrived in New France after the founding of Quebec City. Coureurs des bois and Catholic missionaries used river canoes to explore the interior...
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    originally settled by French Canadian colonists and former colonial marines (coureurs de bois) from such outposts as Fort Toulouse and Fort Kaskaskia and later...
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  • NC Poet Laureate, dies at 87 Gene P. Deer II Ronald Bruce Dewar Ancien coureur professionnel, Raymond Elena nous a quittés (in French) Addio a Fabio Fabbri...
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  • Mackay brought integrity, charm and humour to broadcasting Cyclisme. Le coureur normand Pierre Michel est décédé à 93 ans (in French) Gucci and Moschino...
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  • Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 33–34. ISBN 9781461659310. Cyclisme : la fiche coureur de Hugo Albert Koblett . Lequipe.fr (23 July 2014). Retrieved on 2015-08-05...
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    spelling toque is documented. The fashion is said to have originated with the coureurs de bois, French and Métis fur traders, who kept their woollen nightcaps...
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    Edmonton was also called Fort-des-Prairies by French-Canadians, trappers, and coureurs des bois. Indigenous languages refer to the Edmonton area by multiple names...
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  • Chicago author, Columbia College professor Don De Grazia dies at 56 «Un coureur de classe et un fort caractère» Le cyclisme valaisan rend hommage à Bernard...
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  • Syracuse a leading abolitionist city Pierre-Esprit Radisson – explorer and coureur des bois who traveled into Onondaga territory to aid Le Moyne and operate...
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    historical adversaries of the Iroquois Confederation. French voyageurs and coureurs des bois explored and settled in Michigan in the 17th century. The first...
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    www.historicacanada.ca. "Heritage Minute tells tale of Japanese-Canadian baseball pioneers torn apart by internment". "Liberation of the Netherlands". Historica...
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    and northwest from Musselman Lake; both were part of the aboriginal and Coureur des bois trail system leading through dense forests from Lake Ontario to...
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  • Administrator Jayantha Paranathala dies Cyclisme. Tour de France : Henri Perly, le coureur qui a vu éclore et grandir Anquetil, n'est plus (in French) Zum Tod von...
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    1681 instructing one of two canoes to make known the king's amnesty to coureurs de bois, although the Kaministiquia River is depicted on the 1671 "Carte...
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    Some women wore clothes deemed indecent, with breasts almost visible. The Coureur des bois and Voyageurs wore similar clothing. During the colder months...
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    had occupied the area before European contact. French traders, called coureurs de bois (forest trappers and hunters), arrived in the Opelousas area in...
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    series 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...
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    Jesuit priest by the name of Simon Le Moyne, accompanied by soldiers and coureurs des bois, including Pierre Esprit Radisson, set up a mission, known as...
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    likely to have seen Mackinac Island is Jean Nicolet, a French-Canadian coureur des bois, during his 1634 explorations. The Jesuit priest Claude Dablon...
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    merchants at Montreal formed the "Communaute des Habitants". Both Indians and Coureurs de Bois supplied furs. The company remained profitable until the Iroquois...
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  • Sermonti: scienziato, filosofo e narratore (in Italian) Décès de l'ancien coureur breton Jo Thomin (in French) Laurel football legend Waller passes away...
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    occupied by various indigenous peoples for thousands of years. Voyageurs and coureurs des bois from New France first encountered the Ojibwe and Dakota through...
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  • Benning: "Eine über Parteigrenzen anerkannte Kollegin" (in German) Ancien coureur et frère de Louison, Jean Bobet est mort (in French) Vale Geoffrey Brennan...
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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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  • Vendrell, exrepresentante de ONU en Afganistán (in Spanish) Apremont. Ancien coureur cycliste professionnel, Bernard Viot est mort (in French) Murray Waxman...
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  • Howard Ruff, Quirky Conservative Economist and Author, Dies at 85 L'ancien coureur Edgard Sorgeloos est décédé (in French) Lupita Tovar, protagonista de la...
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    receding of Lake Agassiz 8,000-10,000 years ago. Legend has it that notable coureurs des bois Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers—both instrumental...
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