page 2 of social

• -the fur trade was difficult to control beacause too many young men were attracted to the life of adventure and freedom of coureur des bois
• -the french goverment was worried too many young men were ''wood running'' instead of building a settlements and having famlies
• -so, the french goverment made a law that you needed the goveners permission to trade, these traders were called voygeurs
• -cour des bois who were caught,were either jailed or hanged
• -voyageurs were adventures and exploerers they paddeled birch bark canoes and sang songs as they paddled