The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site is a historic building located in the borough of Lachine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the western end of the Lachine Canal. It is a National Historic
The Fur Trade at Lachine and original Lachine Canal as in 1820s
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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
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