Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade i

Nute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through th

A history of the North American fur trade, based on primary sources. The North American fur trade, set in motion by the discovery of the New World in the fiftee

A red squirrel stows away on a canoe to fulfill his dream of joining a group of voyageurs--men who paddle canoes filled with goods to a trading post thousands o

Voyageur is the French word for "traveler," but in the Great Lakes region during the seventeenth century it described those men who made their living trading fu