The Ottawa River was gateway to Canada's most famous trade routes used during the coureurs de bois and voyageur era in Canada, and was critical to the development of commercial enterprise, mapping and settlement in Canada. |
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The Mac in question is Alexander Mackenzie, voyageur leader based in Montreal and the Max in answer is Max Finkelstein, peripatetic paddler based in Ottawa. |
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The human images associated with it are the stuff of Canadian mythology: the Indian trapper, the voyageur, the lumberjack, the prospector, the bush pilot. |
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As voyageur participants in the brigade, we were invited to become part of the show, playing the part of guests at Charlotte and David's wedding, singing and dancing as clumsily as the real voyageurs probably did. |
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The name 'Chabichou' appears in Charles de Cherge's 1782 'Guide du voyageur à Poitiers'. It is associated with the Poitou region and its praises were sung in a sonnet by Emile Bergerat in 1910 and in a 1914 song. |
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From 1935 to 1986 the Canadian silver dollar depicted a voyageur and an Indigenous person paddling a canoe with the Northern Lights in the background. |
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Festival du Voyageur, Western Canada's largest winter festival, celebrates the early French explorers of the Red River Valley. |
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