Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes

  The Vanguard of the Wilderness: The Epic Legacy of the Robidoux Dynasty https://laprairie-voyageur-canoes.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-vanguar...

  The story of the American West is often written as a sudden, Anglo-American surge toward the Pacific in the 19th century. But long before ...

In the late 1680s, a young man named Pierre Caouette stood on the rugged docks of Brest, in Brittany, France. Born to the rhythm of the Atla...

  By binding the Amiot (Amyot) family to the Duquet dit Desrochers line through the 1683 marriage of Catherine-Ursule and Jean Duquet, our f...

  Jérémie Duquet (sometimes also Duquette or Duquet dit Desrochers) was a French-Canadian voyageur from the La Prairie area in Quebec, acti...