Voyageur Corps

Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a regiment of predominantly French-Canadian boatmen raised by the North West Company for service in the War of 1812.

See: voyageur(def. 3)

Quotations

1963

Commissions such as Archibald Norman Macleod held in the Voyageur Corps, although it was already disbanded [1814], were obtained for others.