[F.; see prec.] In Canada, a man employed by the fur companies in carrying goods to and from the trading posts on the lakes and rivers; a Canadian boatman.
1809. A. Henry, Trav., 18. In ascending the Longue Sault, a distance of three miles, my canoes were three times unladen, and, together with their freight, carried on the shoulders of the voyageurs.
1842. A. Combe, Physiol. Digestion (ed. 4), 90. St Martin returned to Canada … [and] engaged as a voyageur with the Hudson’s Bay Fur Company.
1893. Nation (N. Y.), 17 Aug., 121/2. At the nightly bivouac, to the astonishment of the voyageurs, the noises continued.
attrib. 1903. Daily Mail, 5 Sept., 5/6. The party was put into one of the large voyageur flat-bottomed boats.
