French pedlar

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a coureur de bois, especially one who competed for trade in Rupert's Land, thus being considered an interloper.

See: pedlar(def. 1a)

Quotations

1772, 1908

. . . in the afternoon passed by an old Trading house, belonging to the French pedlars before the conquest of Quebec. . . .

1960

The defeat of France in America did not mean the end of the "French Pedlars," as they were disdainfully called by the British Company.