But what happens if you throw an ax-wielding French Canadian into the mix ... Besides, where else can you help steer a 34-foot canoe?

Then those same vessels became tools of colonial expansion during the Voyageurs’ fur ... better equipped to tell the canoe’s story than the upgraded Canadian Canoe Museum.

enabling the community to experience the fur trade era aboard a 34-foot-long canoe like a voyageur of long ago. Visitors can join the Metroparks own French Canadian voyageurs and set out on a lake ...

It’s a mystery why a young woman joined her husband on journeys by birchbark canoe along Canada's fur trade highway, some 150 years ago. The wives of most Hudson Bay Company officials stayed ...

The park's website said the program is set to resume on July 8, and that the Canadian border agency ... co-owner of Voyageur Canoe Outfitters at the end of the Gunflint Trail.

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 ...

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 ...