en derouine Cdn French, Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
THIS ENTRY MAY CONTAIN OUTDATED INFORMATION, TERMS and EXAMPLES
See 1933 quote.
See also: camp-trade party derouine
- 1800  (1933)  I sent Collin & Seven men off en Derouine to where the Vent du Nord came from. . . .
- 1801  (1897)  Lac la Pluie Indians arrived, for people to go en derouine on the upper part of Two Rivers.
- 1933  Traders were said to courir en derouine when, instead of waiting at their established posts for the Indians to come in and trade their furs, they went out to the Indian hunting camps to get the peltries.
- 1962  (1964)  A large number of men was necessary to secure provisions to engage in trapping furs, to go about among the Indians collecting furs en derouine, and to protect the forts.