DCHP-2

runner ((2)) 2 [trans. of Cdn F coureur (derouine) runner on the move; see derouine] Fur Trade, Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• n.

  a company employee, often an Indian, who made fur-buying trips to the Indian hunting camps in the forest.

  See also: derouine  fur-runner  tripper  

  • 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. . . .