DCHP-3

Canadian voyageur

Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of the canoemen or boatmen, usually a French Canadian, Orkneyman, Indian, or Métis, who crewed the vessels of the inland fur trade.

See: voyageur(def. 1)

Quotations

1806
An Indian or a Canadian voyageur, will discern a path or tract where others have passed, and follow it for many days, where you or I would never have imagined a human being had passed before.
1957
. . . in the nineteenth century the Canadian voyageur became a familiar sight at York [Factory].