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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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Ste. Anne–and old lore–protected the voyageurs
As a first stop, brigades of voyageurs prayed to Ste. Anne at a shrine. And (in case they needed more), they blended other traditions to help them cope with the dangerous journeys.
Cash or credit: New way to pay offered by fur trade
The fur trade introduced paying by credit–a new system of commerce. Until this past January, Hudson’s Bay Company was the longest-operating business in North America.
New book! Fur Trade Nation: An Ojibwe’s Graphic History
A first–the fur trade from the Ojiwbw point of view, in a graphic novel by Carl Gawboy His book “Fur Trade Nation” is well worth your time.







