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The voyageur. Reprint ed.
Author
"Nute, Grace Lee."
Publisher
St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Date1987, c1931
ClassificationsMain Library Collection
Object numberF1027 .N96 1987
Description"viii, 288 p. : ill. ; 22 cm."The Voyageur is the authoritative account of a unique and colorful group of men whose exploits, songs, and customs comprise an enduring legacy. French Canadians who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders, the voyageurs were experts at traversing the treacherous rapids and dangerous open waters of the canoe routes from Quebec and Montreal to the regions bordering the Great Lakes and on to the Mackenzie and Columbia Rivers. During the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, explorers and fur traders relied on the voyageurs to open up the vast reaches of North America to settlement and trade.
French-Canadians.
Fur trade -- Canada.
Ballads, French -- Canada.
Canoteurs -- Canada -- Histoire.
Coureurs de bois -- Canada -- Histoire.
Fourrures -- Commerce -- Canada -- Histoire.
Explorateurs -- Amérique du Nord -- Histoire.
Colonisation intérieure -- Canada -- Histoire.
Nouvelle-France -- Commerce.
Amérique du Nord -- Découverte et exploration françaises.
Ballads, French.
Fur trade.
Canada.
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