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Therefore any account of pioneer Frenchmen should include a sketch of the coureurs de bois. To illustrate this type, one is here taken as an example who was born in France, and who was a gentleman by birth and education, but whose insatiable love of adventure led him to take up the coureur's life, with all its vicissitudes.
A mémoire written by De la Chesnaye in 1696 see Documents Nouvelle France, 1492-1712 distinctly refers to a coureur's trail from Lake Superior to Lake Assiniboine or Lake Winnipeg. There is no record of any Frenchmen but Radisson and Groseillers having followed such a trail to the land of the Assiniboines the Manitoba of to-day before 1676.
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