The area’s fur-trading past comes to life for two days at Indiana Dunes State Park.Members of Lafayette-based Ouiatenon Brigade portray French-Canadian fur traders of the 1700s in dress, food ...

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MACKINAW CITY, MI – French-Canadian folklore will come to life during a spooky weekend of events at Colonial Michilimackinac. Scheduled to take place from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Oct. 7 and ...

French Canadian voyageurs spread tuberculosis throughout the indigenous peoples of western Canada for over 150 years, yet, strangely enough, it wasn't until the fur traders ceased their forays ...

French Canadian fur traders used a canoe like this one to traverse rivers and skirt the Great Lakes. Adventurers 12 and older (children must be accompanied by an adult) ...

French Canadian voyageurs spread tuberculosis throughout the indigenous peoples of western Canada for over 150 years, yet, strangely enough, it wasn't until the fur traders ceased their forays ...

It is recorded that in 1769 Louis Blanchette, a French/Canadian fur trader and hunter, built a log cabin on this site along the low bluffs of the Missouri River and came to call this area "Les ...

Discover the history of the French fur trade in Illinois and the routes taken by 17th Century trappers and explorers from Canada to and through the Prairie State, including settlements at Waukegan … ...

In Voyageurs, Rice introduces audiences to French Canadian fur trader and voyageur, Francois Le Mai, as he and his friend, Jean Baptiste Pointe DuSable, arrive by canoe to early Chicago.