Runners of the wood.
When the fur trade first began, First Nations and Inuit people brought the furs to the trading posts. They would arrive by canoe. The furs would be unloaded and traded for goods such as muskets, axes, knives, blankets, whiskey and pots. It was not long before some of the men at the trading posts decided they would go inland and get the fur themselves. These were the people known as the coureurs de bois.
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Runners of the wood.
No. The coureurs de bois wereon there own.
Early 1600's.
They were there before 1663, but only in small numbers. The Sixties however saw a great increase in immigration to Canada from France and with that, a great increase in the number of coureurs des bois. Their days as free agents came to an end even before 1700, because the French Government decided to regulate this trade and gave trade concessions to big trading houses. This system (the so-called 'congé'-system) put the trade in the hands of the traveling representatives of the trading houses, the voyageurs.
"les coureurs des bois"
Yes, the coureurs de bois were French-Canadian fur traders who operated in the wilderness of North America during the 17th and 18th centuries. They were known for their independence and often operated outside the control of French colonial authorities.
they traded furs, muskets, blankets, brandy and spoons forks knifes and metal plates.
A "coureur des bois", literally "woods runner", was a colonist hunting and trapping animals for their fur, or living by trading by the natives. They did not live in a house, but out in the woods.
Actually they didn't. You can still find them today, they may not look the same or dress the same but times change.
"Coureur des bois" (often mispelled as "courier") translates literally as "woods runner". It was a name for a colonist hunting and trapping animals for their fur, or living by trading by the natives. They did not live in a house, but out in the woods.