by pioneering voyageurs paddling birchbark canoes. This grainy footage and corresponding interviews, played over French Canadian voyageur tunes, comprise Forni’s favorite moment of his film.

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 ...

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.