An all-female team is more than a month into a self-supported 1,900km kayaking expedition from Grand Portage on Lake Superior ...

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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Roaring fires, undead Redcoat soldiers and French fur traders and voyageurs from long ago will also haunt the fort, sharing ancient tales, singing songs played to traditional music of the 1700s ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The American fur traders had a shorter career than the big Canadian companies, but their enterprises covered almost as large an area, their commercial success was nearly as great, while the social ...

Prominent Quebec actor Roy Dupuis who turned down a role in The Revenant is criticizing the Oscar-nominated film for its “disappointing and shocking” depiction of French-Canadian fur traders.