DCHP-3

runner ((2))

[trans. of Cdn F coureur (derouine) runner on the move; see derouine]
Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a company employee, often an Indian, who made fur-buying trips to the Indian hunting camps in the forest.

Quotations

1820
We are sadly in want of runners all over the Country.
1830, 1931
Ever since your departure we have had 32 men 2 Clerks, the Interpreter & One Runner employed in that way & a few days after your departure the Tariff fell to One Beaver p Blanket.
1960
. . . the mixed bloods . . . [lived] as canoemen and runners for the fur-trade, as buffalo hunters and makers of pemmican. . . .