1820  (1938)  We are sadly in want of runners all over the Country.
1830, 1931  Ever since your departure we have had 32 men 2 Clerks, the Interpreter & One Runner employed in that way & a few days after your departure the Tariff fell to One Beaver p Blanket.
1960  . . . the mixed bloods . . . [lived] as canoemen and runners for the fur-trade, as buffalo hunters and makers of pemmican. . . .