by Nikki Rajala | Aug 10, 2017 | Featured
This 25-day-long, 850-kilometre canoe trip was organized in response to the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. The TRC, which was part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, began in 2009 and spent 5 years uncovering...
by Nikki Rajala | Aug 6, 2017 | Featured
The Canadian Canoe Pilgrimage I’ve been following has now traversed the Mattawa River to the Ottawa River. (This leg of the journey might have taken a week or more battling the upstream current in spring, when the water was the highest.) Fortunately the...
by Nikki Rajala | Aug 2, 2017 | Featured
A Canadian Canoe Pilgrimage, with 30 Indigenous, Jesuit, English and French-Canadian paddlers, left Midland, Ontario, July 21. The voyage followed the shores of the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron to the French River. Then they headed upstream on the French River to Lake...
by Nikki Rajala | Jul 20, 2017 | Featured
As I continue to research (and fact-check) for Book 2, I come across fun information. It’s not only the questions that people ask me at presentations or online, which was the topic of Voyageur’s Blog. But the new stuff interests me greatly — and I want to...
by Nikki Rajala | Jun 16, 2017 | Voyageur
Why were the blades of voyageur paddles red? Was it to show them how deep they should paddle? (Darcy) Hmmm. After only a few hours of paddling, canoeists wouldn’t probably need a marker on their paddles — they would instinctively know how deep to paddle. I’ve...
