| It was a coureur de bois, not hurt in body, but so frightened that his state was pitiful. |
| The first European likely to have seen Mackinac Island is Jean Nicolet, a French-Canadian coureur de bois, during his 1634 explorations. |
| Sieur Joliet took Anthony and the little slave and one coureur de bois and kept on down toward Quebec to report. |
| Jacques Morand, the coureur de bois, was in love with Genevieve Parent, but she disliked him and wished only to serve the church. |
| When Quebec City was established in 1608, the coureur de bois was the messenger throughout la Nouvelle France, which included the Maritime Provinces of Canada, Quebec and Maine. |
| The coureur de bois was a nomad who traveled throughout this area, bringing news, stories and a vast knowledge of the land and its people. |
