Coureur des Bois, Lakew Champlain, The runners of the woods worked either for the Hudsons Bay Company or the Northwest Company in Montreal. The opened up Canada as the beaver top hat became fashionable amonst the rich in Europe. Many of them had first nations wives and a wife and family back in England or France. The French King recruited single woman to sail to New France to help populate the French Colony. – Acrylic on Canvas

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