Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota commemorates those French-Canadian fur traders (voyageurs), the first Europeans to ...

The French lost the northern half of the continent ... Within 25 years of its foundation, the NWC would capture 78 per cent of the Canadian fur trade. These Montreal merchants and backwoods ...

In 1659, two French fur-traders - Pierre Esprit Radisson and his brother-in-law Mdard Chouart des Groseilliers - embarked on a journey into the Canadian interior that would transform the North ...