A trapper , sometimes called “runner of wood” or “traveller”, is a professional hunter of the North America practitioner the trapping (“trap door” or “trappage”), not for the Viande (out its own needs), but to sell Fourrure S not damaged by the shots or arrowheads.

Etymology

This word could come from English trapper (1768) francized, but it in the same beginning as the word trap door in its direction “traps” (as average French trapper (1530) traper meant “to take an animal, qqn, by trick” and trappa meant trap as former French. In Quebec, the word “trapper” still is very much used, even if the trade tends to disappear.

Activity

In November, when the animals with fur take their more beautiful hair, the trappers tightened their traps, equipped with sledges and rackets to move in snow. At the end of the winter, in March /avril, they were going to sell or exchange their furs in the counters and stations commercial L to sell to with it the products of their season of trap door. The trappers thus made disappear the beaver several areas from North America. Then they had to face the competition of the breedings of Renard S, muskrats, and Mustélidé S in North America, but also in Europe. The skins were sold according to the course of the moment and their quality. Vers1920, the one season old skins of trap door could still pay to 500 dollars, although the average is rather of 200 dollars.

History

The first counters and organized stations of draft date from the beginning of the 17th century with Quebec. They were French, then Dutch on the basin of the Hudson in the State of New York and as from 1614 with Manhattan. The merchants bought the skins with the white trappers, but also exchanged some with Indians against various tools, weapons, alcohol and objects. In 300 years, several hundreds of stations of draft collected tens of million skins, into the most moved back and giboyeuses zones.
Cette activity was immortalisée by many novels of adventure reporting the life of characters of fiction or having existed, such as Davy Crockett, but the trade is less and less practiced.
Face with the retreat of certain species (disappearance in certain zones) and vis-a-vis the social request, at the end of the 20th century, the regulation of the trap door was reinforced, requiring in Canada two days of course and the certificate of trapper, then a training with a professional trapper before being entitled to a “line of trap door” (public ground concession et/située in zone of Park giving right a trapper to trap and sell the furs resulting from the cut up animals). The trapping on private ground requires a hunting permit, to respect the law and the dates of hunting and the type of traps (the hunting permit does not give the right of trapper).

See too

• Beaver
• Trap

External bonds

• the Last Trapper , film of Nicolas Basket maker left in 2003

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