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Updated: July 27, 2026
The experienced voyageurs who spent the winters in the woods were called hivernans, or winterers, or sometimes hommes du nord; while the inexperienced, those who simply made the trip from Montreal to the outlying depots and return, were contemptuously dubbed mangeurs de lard, "pork-eaters," because their pampered appetites demanded peas and pork rather than hulled corn and tallow.
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