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 | May 21, 2017 | Voyageur
Can people, like, see voyageurs still? Where would you go to learn how to do the work they did, like canoeing, or outdoor skills? Quinn, 11 Yup, there are lots of ways to see and learn how to be a voyageur. It depends on what you want to do, where you live and...
by Nikki Rajala | Jun 25, 2016 | Voyageur
What was it like to paddle on a canoe brigade? Did voyageurs ever write about it? Did voyageurs keep journals? (Renner, 12; Carsyn, 13; Blake, 11) In 1793, John Macdonell left Lachine to begin serving as a North West Company clerk — and he kept a journal! This post...
