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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) ...
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 ...
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.
Antoine Robidoux, shown in 1843, was a French Canadian fur trapper who established an enterprise based in Santa Fe. ... French-Mexican trader was alcalde of old Santa Fe. By Marc Simmons; May 22, ...