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voyageur route

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v.

any of the routes followed by the fur brigades; of earlier days, especially that from Montreal to the Grand Portage.

Quotations

1948
The first trans-Canada transport system was launched by these new traders long before the days of railroad and airline -- the voyageur route to the Northwest.
1963
My friend has retraced most of the old voyageur routes and has paddled Lake Superior in his canoe. He is a true coureur de boil.