DCHP-2

Canadian voyager Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• one of the canoemen or boatmen, usually a French Canadian, Orkneyman, Indian, or Métis, who crewed the vessels of the inland fur trade.

  See also: voyageur (def. 1)  

  • The Anglicized form was in common use among English traders of the 18th and early 19th centuries.