| What a shock it must have been when they first glimpsed the coureurs de bois, muddy trails, and crude houses. |
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| Some two hundred coureurs de bois were living in Indian country by the end of the century. |
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| The French coureurs de bois, were hunters and traders who depended on the Indians to keep them alive. |
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| The coureurs de bois suggested instead that Frenchmen were becoming Indianized, a worrying development for empire builders. |
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| Under the control of the fermiers were the coureurs de bois, who ordinarily acted as middlemen by trading directly with the Indians. |
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| The lucrative fur trade promised a quick profit regardless of license and a flood of immigrants from France between 1650 and 1670 caused the ranks of coureurs de bois to swell. |
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| Late in the 1690s, a bunch of coureurs de bois paddled to New Orleans along with a bunch of Jesuits. |
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| There is an appealing mythology surrounding the coureurs de bois, according to which they enjoyed great freedom and flourished in a harsh wilderness. |
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| Formidable agents of cross-cultural interactions, the coureurs de bois would continue to exert their influence over the course of American history. |
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| The exploits of the early travellers by canoe, especially the French coureurs de bois, stand among the great adventure stories of all time. |
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| Students researched and acted out the stories of important local figures, past and present, such as voyageurs, coureurs de bois, and the mayor. |
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| There were the adventurous coureurs de bois who led a roving life in the bush, and the stolid habitants who built homes and cultivated the soil. |
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| He was followed by other explorers, coureurs de bois, and the fur traders from the Hudson Bay and North West companies. |
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| Among them were coureurs de bois, guides, interpreters, fishermen and explorers. |
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| My own recollection of the program, which I watched as a child, was of coureurs de bois wearing anachronistic wristwatches. |
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| We do not have to walk too far down the banks of the Ottawa River to see a plaque acknowledging in the mid-1800s the coureurs de bois and others. |
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| Often the French coureurs de bois married Aboriginal women and had families. |
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| Jesuits preached to the Hurons, and coureurs de bois roamed inland in search of furs. |
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| For more than 200 years, explorers, fur traders, missionaries and coureurs de bois travelled the route including: Samuel de Champlain, Jean de Brébeuf, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Simon Fraser and David Thompson. |
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| The grade five and six students embarked on a year-long exploration of the history of their town, from its establishment by coureurs de bois to the present-day mayor. |
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| The Ottawa River was gateway to Canada's most famous trade routes used during the coureurs de bois and voyageur era in Canada, and was critical to the development of commercial enterprise, mapping and settlement in Canada. |
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| French coureurs de bois accelerated their penetration of the interior. |
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| A large number of coureurs de bois, voyageurs and explorers from the St. Lawrence valley continued to settle in the West during the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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| In early times, only the boldest or most dedicated white men would venture out on the Shield: coureurs de bois, missionaries, explorers, voyageurs and fur traders. |
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| Living there were a few missionaries, some voyageurs, some coureurs de bois, and a few settlers who had gone there from the banks of the St. Lawrence. |
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| The few coureurs de bois who were already in the region had to accept the arrival of royal authority, and the Amerindian nations through whose territories the expedition passed were generally hospitable. |
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