Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes

Tuesday, November 18, 2025

Voyageurs and Coureurs des Bois: Pioneers of the North American Fur Trade

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  In the vast wilderness of early North America, two intertwined figures emerged as central to the fur trade: the voyageurs and the coureurs...
Friday, November 14, 2025

The Le Ber & Le Moyne Trading Post

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  The Le Ber-Le Moyne House, located in Lachine, Quebec, is one of the oldest surviving structures in Montreal and a significant historical ...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Jacques Pinsonneault dit Lafleur’s marriage to Marie Élisabeth Bourassa

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  Marie Élisabeth Bourassa (1695–1766) Marie Élisabeth Bourassa, often recorded as Élisabeth in parish documents, was born and baptized on F...
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My goal in writing this blog is to answer to the questions I wish I had asked my granddad... I am a horseman, a canoeist, a Western movie historian, a genealogist, and a folk artist. My cowboy and voyageur legacy can be back-trailed for more than twelve generations in North America.
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