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Historically when we talk about the early years of the exploration of Canada,

the names of Cartier and Champlain dominate the conversation.

The two men after all were among the first Europeans since the Vikings to map the mighty

St Lawrence River.

And these men, particularly Champlain, would be pivotal in establishing the first permanent European settlements in Canada in the early 1600s.

For all of that, these two are rightly celebrated.

But there was another group of individuals who are critical to the exploration of the interior of North America, a group of men that are often forgotten. In Canada and the Great Lakes region, these men were called Curie de Bois, runners of the woods.

These were a new breed of persons in the Americas.

Their homes were not in France, or even in the settlements of the region, such as Quebec or Montreal. These men lived on the frontier with the indigenous peoples.

For many of the Cura de Bois, they were more at home in the wilds of Canada than they were in any town or city.

Of them, one priest wrote this, quote, the sort of person who thought nothing of covering

five to six hundred leagues by canoe, paddle and hand, or of living off corn in bare fat for 12 to 18 months,

or of sleeping in bark or branch cabins."

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