The canoe has always been part of Canada ... Then those same vessels became tools of colonial expansion during the Voyageurs’ fur trade era, displacing native communities and fueling the ...

Voyageurs National Park ... The park is named for the French-Canadian fur traders who traveled in birch bark canoes. The modes of transportation are a little more modern now.

They worked 14-hour days, paddling birchbark canoes 3,000 miles ... experiences to the French-Canadian trappers and traders who worked this land centuries ago. Voyageur means "traveler," and ...

Give them a week, Fred Rupp said as 36 high school paddlers packed the bus that would transport them to the put-in point of their monthlong Les Voyageurs wilderness adventure. Give them a week ...

More than 60 canoeists paddled down the Mississippi River on Saturday to protest increased use of motorized vehicles in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness and Voyageurs National ... 150 miles ...

admirably complicates the history of the canoe. This is not only about voyageurs and cottagers and Pierre Elliott Trudeau in a buckskin jacket – though those touchstones of Canadian mythology ...

MACKINAW CITY, MI – French-Canadian folklore will come to life during a spooky weekend of events at Colonial Michilimackinac ... and French fur traders and voyageurs from long ago will also ...