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Fur-trading coureurs de bois settled down with Indian wives, and today more than a few Québécois proudly trace their ancestry back to native peoples with a tell-tale birthmark on the hip, high cheekbones, or long sleek black hair.
Côte de Charlevoix is part of the Laurentian heights, reaching to the Saguenay River where the coureurs de bois turned off in search of furs.
This is the country through which the Nor’Westers’ coureurs de bois paddled their way to the Indian trappers’ remote camps, adopting the natives’ lore for tackling the wilderness, including their snowshoes, toboggans, and birchbark canoes.
Tough coureurs de bois sought furs from the Huron in Ontario and Algonquin in Québec, quickly learning language and customs and even marrying into the tribes.
The coureurs de bois were more adapted to the wilderness and understood the Indians better.