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Uncharted Waters
The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyager – Book 3
It’s 1805 and André, now 16, desperately wants to paddle with French-Canadian canoe brigades-maybe his last chance. But choosing to tend to his ailing foster parents, he relinquishes his clerk’s position at a fur trade post in the vast Canadian wilderness.
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The Fur Trade Promotion Ladder: Voyageurs Need Not Apply
Most voyageurs spent their lives in the canoe, no matter how loyal their service or strong their arms. In the fur trade, class barriers and a lack of literacy kept the paddles in their hands — and the promotions to better jobs out of reach.
Voyageurs: Hardy Dynamos of the Fur Trade
Voyageurs were hardy men who used their physical power and skill with canoes to move trade goods across the interior, returning with beaver and other pelts.
Canoes that shaped a continent: Built of bark, made for miles
In celebration of National Canoe Day, we honor the genius of Indigenous birch bark canoe design.