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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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were an independent entrepreneurial French-Canadian woodsmen who traveled in New France and the interior of North America

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