Grand Portage National Monument is a United States National Monument located on the north shore of Lake Superior in northeastern Minnesota that preserves a vital center of fur trade activity and Anish
The Great Hall at Grand Portage
Ojibwe Wigwam at Grand Portage, painted by Eastman Johnson in 1857
Canoe Manned by Voyageurs Passing a Waterfall (Ontario) painted by Frances Anne Hopkins in 1869
Trail contours of the Grand Portage. The vertical scale is exaggerated 30 times the horizontal scale.
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Voyageurs were 18th- and 19th-century French people and later French Canadians who transported furs by canoe at the peak of the North American fur trade. The emblematic meaning of the term applies to
Grand Portage National Monument
…the last 20 miles (32 km) of the Pigeon River before it flows into Lake Superior. This path is part of the historic trade route of the French-Canadian voyageurs and coureur des bois between their wintering grounds and their depots to the east. Composed of the Pigeon River and other strategic interior streams…
Shooting the Rapids, 1879 by Frances Anne Hopkins (1838–1919)
Photo of the Edict that King Louis XIV passed limiting who could participate in the fur trade
Voyageurs at Dawn, 1871 by Frances Anne Hopkins (1838–1919)
The Voyageurs, 1846 by Charles Deas