coureurs de bois
- plural of coureur de bois.
Example Sentences
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Ltd., whose ships have successfully conquered stormy arctic waters for 261 years, whose trappers and coureurs de bois opened the Canadian wilderness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Here will be found the adventurous coureurs de bois, many of the great routes and trading posts, the headquarters of which in later times, was Fort William, on Thunder Bay.
From The Ontario Archives Scope of its Operations by Fraser, Alexander
Frontenac had received from the king strict instructions to repress the coureurs de bois by all means in his power.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by LeSueur, William Dawson
The van was led by La Durantaye, Du Lhut and Tonty with their coureurs de bois, about two hundred in number.
From Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by LeSueur, William Dawson
Their furs were brought to Three Rivers, Montreal, or Quebec, or were traded to the coureurs de bois.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
