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While French settlers had lived and traded alongside Indigenous people since the earliest days of New France, coureurs des bois reached their apex during the second half of the 17th century. After 1681, the independent coureur des bois was gradually replaced by state-sponsored voyageurs, who were workers associated with licensed fur traders ...
By the late 17th century, a trade route through and beyond the Great Lakes had been opened. [12] The Hudson's Bay Company opened in 1670. [12] The North West Company opened in 1784, exploring as far west and north as Lake Athabasca. [12] The American Fur Company, owned and operated by John Jacob Astor, was founded in 1808. By 1830, the American ...
The vast wealth in the fur trade created enforcement problems for the monopoly. Unlicensed independent traders, known as coureurs des bois (or "runners of the woods"), began to do business in the late 17th and early 18th century. Over time, many Métis were drawn to the independent trade; they were the descendants of French trappers and native ...
Jacques Le Tort (c. 1651 – c. 1702) was a French-Canadian fur trapper, trader, explorer and entrepreneur who spent much of his life in the Province of Pennsylvania engaged in the fur trade. He collaborated with other French-Canadians living there at the time, including Peter Bisaillon and Martin Chartier , as well as the future mayor of ...
This is a list of explorers, trappers, guides, and other frontiersmen known as "Mountain Men". Mountain men are most associated with trapping for beaver from 1807 to the 1840s in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. Most moved on to other endeavors, but a few of them followed or adopted the mountain man life style into the 20th century.
Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636/1640–1710) was a French coureur des bois and explorer in New France.He is often linked to his brother-in-law Médard des Groseilliers.The decision of Radisson and Groseilliers to enter the English service led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Bisaillon and other coureurs des bois dominated the Pennsylvania fur trade during the late 17th and early 18th century, as they were skilled hunters and trappers and had established good relations with local Native American tribes. Bisaillon and his colleagues were regarded with suspicion by Pennsylvania authorities, however, and he was ...
Nicolas Perrot (c. 1644 –1717), a French explorer, fur trader, and diplomat, was one of the first European men to travel in the Upper Mississippi Valley, in what is now Wisconsin and Minnesota. Biography