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Bookmark or Share- Voyageurs National Park - WikipediaVoyageurs National Park is an American national park in northern Minnesota near the city of International Falls established in 1975. The park's name commemorates the voyageurs — French-Canadian fur traders who were the first European settlers to frequently travel through the area. [3]
- The Life of a Voyageur - HBC Heritage• What physical characteristics did the voyageur have? Why were these important? • Where did the voyageurs come from? • What did they wear? Why? • What did they eat? Why? • How was the food prepared on their journey? • How did they pass the time while paddling and at the end of the day?
- Voyageurs - WikipediaVoyageurs ( French: [vwajaʒœʁ] ⓘ; lit. 'travellers') were 18th- and 19th-century French Canadians and others who transported furs by canoe at the peak of the North American fur trade.
- Voyageurs National Park (U.S. National Park Service)A Park of Water, Islands, and Horizons. With 218,055 acres, Voyageurs National Park is an adventure wonderland all year long full of exposed rock ridges, cliffs, wetlands, forests, streams and lakes.
- Voyageurs | Encyclopedia.comVOYAGEURS, or engagés, were a class of men employed by fur traders—especially by the North West, the American, and the Hudson's Bay Companies—to paddle their canoes and perform other menial tasks connected with the securing of furs and the maintenance of posts in the interior.
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