Voyageur’s Blog
Ask a voyageur a question
Here’s a blog to answer your questions, like what was life like during the 1800s in French Canada? Like who could or couldn’t be a voyageur? How big the canoes were? What trade goods they carried? What different furs were worth? What they used for medicine? I’ll answer these and more in the “A Voyageur’s Life” blog. Click on the button below to ask your question or go to the “Contact” section of this site — I’ll find the answers.
“The Littlest Voyageur” — much smaller than Andre
A squirrel stows away on a brigade to the rendezvous in “The Littlest Voyageur, “ a light-hearted tale of the fur trade by Margi Preus.
5 maps of North America I bet you haven’t seen
Old maps tell us much about what people then believed about North America.
2 Indian games, before casinos
Games of chance entertained Native Americans and voyageurs alike.
A short history of the fur trade era
A dozen events distilled from 200 years of fur trade history–your cheat sheet.
Winter games for voyageurs
For winter fun, voyageurs used a checkers board to play a variety of games.
The fur trade in 17 ‘P’ words
Lots of words about the fur trade begin with P: paddle, portage … Plus more, (Surprise: ‘plus’ is a descriptor!)