What was les coureurs des bois duties in New France?
These are the roles for coureur de bois,Thanks.
-keeping with plan, the French tried to develop close trading
relationships with native people
-they wanted native traders to come to the St. Lawrence
-French explorers and coureurs de bois traveled far out into the
continent, seeking both furs and the Northwest Passage
-independent fur traders
-they paid official fees and bribes to look the other way
-they traveled the waterways in birch-bark canoes
-beginning of the fur brigades
-brothers-in-law, Pierre Radisson and Médart de Groseilliers are
probably most famous of the coureurs de bois for the great northern
sea
-when they didn't tell France of their find, they went off the
England, where King Charles II sponsored the beginning of the
Hudson's Bay Company