| What a shock it must have been when they first glimpsed the coureurs de bois, muddy trails, and crude houses. |
| My own recollection of the program, which I watched as a child, was of coureurs de bois wearing anachronistic wristwatches. |
| Under the control of the fermiers were the coureurs de bois, who ordinarily acted as middlemen by trading directly with the Indians. |
| 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. |
| The coureurs de bois suggested instead that Frenchmen were becoming Indianized, a worrying development for empire builders. |
| The exploits of the early travellers by canoe, especially the French coureurs de bois, stand among the great adventure stories of all time. |
