Engageur ouest
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Engageur Ouest
An engageur ouest was a person who assembled a team of several men as engagés pour l'ouest, who were meant to transport furs during the fur trade years. The engageur had to provide them with tools, a canoe and food.
[The specific term “engageur ouest” has been included here because of its use in René Jetté’s Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Québec des origines à 1730. The “engageur ouest” would normally have been called simply an “engageur”.]
"Prince Rupert reading charter granted May 2nd, 1670, to the directors of the Company of adventurers trading into Hudson's Bay" (1928 oil painting by Charles Walter Simpson, Library and Archives Canada, MIKAN No 2837271)