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Who were the coureurs de bois

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A Canadien trader (runner of the woods) who paddled on long journeys into the wilderness to trade for furs with the First Nations.

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A Coureur Des Bois was a independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsman who traveled in New France and the interior of North America.
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