The Voyageur
The Voyageur

Author: Grace Lee Nute

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2008-10-14

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0873517067

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Nute's best-selling book portrays the indefatigable French-Canadian canoemen, whose labors were vital to the fur trade and whose influence reaches us through the colorful songs, place names, customs, and legends they left behind.

Voyageurs National Park
Voyageurs National Park

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation

Publisher:

Published: 1970

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13:

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Canoe Country
Canoe Country

Author: Roy MacGregor

Publisher: Vintage Canada

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 030736142X

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One of our favourite chroniclers of all things Canadian presents a rollicking, personal, photo-filled history of the relationship between a country and its canoes. From the earliest explorers on the Columbia River in BC or the Mattawa in Ontario to a doomed expedition of voyageurs up the Nile to rescue Khartoum; from the author's family roots deep in the Algonquin wilderness to modern families who have canoed across the country (kids and dogs included): Canoe Country is Roy MacGregor's celebration of the essential and enduring love affair Canadians have with our first and still favourite means of getting around. Famous paddlers have been so enchanted with the canoe that one swore God made Canada as the perfect country in which to paddle it. Drawing on MacGregor's own decades spent whenever possible with a paddle in his hand, this is a story of high adventure on white water and the sweetest peace in nature's quietest corners, from the author best able (and most eager) to tell it.

Making the Voyageur World
Making the Voyageur World

Author: Carolyn Podruchny

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 0803287909

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Through a detailed analysis of their unique occupational culture, Making the Voyageur World reexamines the French Canadian workers who dominated the fur trade industry and became iconic images of North American lore.

Voyageur Country
Voyageur Country

Author: Robert Treuer

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 9780816631551

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"Over 250,000 people visit Minnesota's only national park each year. This popularity raises crucial questions: Can timber wolves thrive amid snowmobiles and jet skis? Can the thin layer of fragile soil atop the Precambrian shield, the oldest exposed rock on earth, survive the feet of campers? Voyageur Country explores these quandaries, describes the environmental significance of the park, and presents the only complete history of this important region." "The first paperback edition of this classic work includes an updated preface and chronology. The birth of the modern incarnation of Voyageurs as a national park is detailed, with accounts of the contributions of Sigurd Olson and other conservationists. Voyageur Country is an essential launching point for considering the policy that guides our relationship with the land."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Canoe Country Wilderness
Canoe Country Wilderness

Author: William N. Rom

Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : Voyageur Press

Published: 1990-05

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780896580657

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Hit the road with Voyageur Press. From sea to shining sea, Voyageur has the illustrated travel and regional interest titles your customers want, whether for travel planning or keepsake. So plan ahead and create a travel showcase and promotion--including our books--geared towards the traveler; and you won't be disappointed with the results.

In a Queer Country
In a Queer Country

Author: Terry Goldie

Publisher: arsenal pulp press

Published: 2002-07-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1551523981

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A groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles, pleasures, and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and post-colonial studies, In a Queer Country confronts queer culture from various perspectives relevant to international audiences. Topics range from the politics of the family and spousal rights to queer black identity, from pride parade fashions to lesbian park rangers.