voyageur
Canadian canoe trader
A voyageur was a French-Canadian boatman who transported furs and trade goods by canoe through the North American interior during the 18th and 19th centuries.
The term evokes the rugged wilderness travel of the fur trade era: The voyageurs paddled eighteen hours a day through the lake country.
Now used historically or to suggest hardy outdoor adventure.
Slender paddled vessel
- portageOverland boat hauling
- beaverDam-constructing aquatic rodent
- peltFur-bearing animal skin
- Hudson BayLarge Canadian subarctic sea
trading post · birchbark · paddle · rapids · wilderness · trapper · brigade · factor
Homeless wanderer by choice
- wayfarerTraveler, especially walking
- roverDrifter or space explorer
- ramblerLeisurely rural hiker
- drifterAimless, rootless traveler
itinerant · sojourner · pilgrim · backpacker · globetrotter · wanderlust · roamer · traveler
Organized exploratory journey
- cartographyCreating geographic representations
- discoveryAct of finding something
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
pathfinder · scout · trailblazer · frontiersman · mapping · uncharted · reconnaissance · surveyor
Extended adventurous journey
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- crossingPoint where paths intersect
- passageSegment of text
- traverseMove across an area
navigation · transit · itinerary · trek · quest · pilgrimage · safari · excursion
canoe
Slender paddled vessel
Hudson Bay · trading post · birchbark · paddle · rapids · wilderness · trapper · brigade · factor · rendezvous
nomad
Homeless wanderer by choice
drifter · itinerant · sojourner · pilgrim · backpacker · globetrotter · wanderlust · roamer · traveler · journeyman
expedition
Organized exploratory journey
- cartographyCreating geographic representations
- discoveryAct of finding something
- territoryLand under jurisdiction
pioneer · pathfinder · scout · trailblazer · frontiersman · mapping · uncharted · reconnaissance · surveyor · charting
odyssey
Extended adventurous journey
- expeditionOrganized exploratory journey
- crossingPoint where paths intersect
- passageSegment of text
traverse · navigation · transit · itinerary · trek · quest · pilgrimage · safari · excursion · route
- navigatorsnavigators, pathfinders, helmsman, wayfinders, steersman
- QuebecQuebec City, Montreal, premier, National Assembly, premiers
- French CanadaCanadian French, French Canadian, Quebecois, francophone, bilingualism
- Frontiersmenmountain man, frontiersman, backwoodsman, trapper, fur trapper
- fur tradebeaver pelts, pelts, furs, mink, sable
- fur tradersfur trader, trapper, mountain man, pelter, factor
voyageursettler
One who colonizes territory
homesteader · colonist · habitant · farmer · stay-at-home
voyageurbourgeois
Middle-class and conventional
fur trader · factor · merchant · clerk · proprietor
- maiden voyagesFirst trips of vessels
- bon voyageTraveler's send-off phrase
- historic voyageMemorable journey of significance
- sea voyageTravel across ocean waters
- ocean voyageTravel by ship overseas
- epic voyageGrand, heroic journey