By Nikki Rajala
Treacherous Waters
The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyager
André nearly drowns in an icy St. Lawrence River. Those memories plague him when he sets out on a fur trade brigade to Indian territory west of Lake Superior, in addition to battling the harsh environment — and a man intent on killing him.
Author
Nikki Rajala
Nikki Rajala delights in creating fiction and nonfiction alike, and especially enjoys rewriting. But that hasn’t always been so. For years she struggled with “writing phobia.” After she married Bill Vossler, a full-time freelance writer, he encouraged her to find her authentic voice. She and her husband live in Rockville, Minnesota.
Other Books by Nikki Rajala
Waters Like the Sky
The Chronicles of an Unlikely Voyager
Book 1
Some Like It Hot
The Sauna, Its Lore and Stories
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“Fans of Book 1 of Waters Like the Sky can set forth with André Didier on new adventures. They won’t be disappointed. Treacherous Waters, the second book in the series, is even more nail-bitingly perilous than the first. In addition to being a cracking good adventure story, Treacherous Waters is also a well-researched portrait of life on the Minnesota frontier in early decades of the nineteenth century.”
– Wayne Backman
Nikki Rajala’s Official Voyager’s Blog
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How to find ancestors who paddled on voyageur brigades—easily
Want to see if you have voyageurs in your family ancestry? This website extracts information from 35,000 contracts; another one provides the actual contract and translates it into English. Addictive.
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Who’s the ‘Patroness of Voyageurs’ — Ste. Anne or Ste. Anne de Beaupre?
Official sources mention Ste. Anne as the patroness of many groups but don’t list voyageurs among them. Only fur trade journals tell that story. To get the more complex answer, you’ll have to read between the lines.
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Is it true that Ste. Anne is ‘patroness of voyageurs’?
Ste. Anne has been called the patroness of voyageurs, and fur trade journals and histories back that up. The canoe brigades of both Peter Pond and John Macdonnell stopped at Ste. Anne Church to ask prayers for a successful voyage.
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