by Nikki Rajala | Jun 15, 2025 | Voyageur
In honor of National Canoe Day — June 26 in Canada — I created this emoji: ͼ!¡¡¡¡¡¡¡!ͻ Canoes were built in a variety of sizes, depending on need. Indigenous people used canoes for traveling, ricing, … and large canoes for war and trading. When the fur trade...
by Nikki Rajala | May 19, 2018 | Featured
It’s in my blood—I’m descended from voyageurs. Mom found listings of a dozen engagés, or canoemen, through genealogy research into her French-Canadian roots. My grandfather, a younger son of a younger son of a voyageur, told of his connection: His great...
