Ripples from La Prairie Voyageur Canoes

  Manor of Robert Giffard built by Zacharie Cloutier Before 1634, New France was little more than a string of fragile fur-trading outposts c...

  In the autumn of 1619, the cold Atlantic wind whipping off the St. Lawrence River brought the scent of wet spruce, woodsmoke, and vast, un...

  While many voyageurs faced the daunting expanse of le Pays d’en Haut alone, the Lagassé family sent two of its own sons across the Contin...