The swarthy voyageurs of the late 17th and early 18th century were a hearty bunch who muscled 4-ton loads of fur pelts across windy waters and rocky portages. They worked 14-hour days, paddling ...
Camping on the beach at Indiana Dunes State Park with 30 mph winds was no picnic, but reenactors portraying French-Canadian voyageurs roughed it over the weekend to show what life was like for traders ...
A recent study says people are happiest when visiting Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota over other national parks in the ...
Two hundred fifty years ago, French–Canadian Voyageurs would canoe down the Grand Kankakee to trade for furs with Native Americans and other Northwest Indiana settlers. On May 14 and 15, re–enactors ...