In the Voyageurs' Footsteps (Grades 5-9)

Selected Resources

Parks Canada Web site

www.pc.gc.ca/resource2

National Historic Sites

• administered by Parks Canada:
  • The Forks National Historic Site of Canada
  • Fort Langley National Historic Site of Canada
  • Fort St. James National Historic Site of Canada
  • The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site of Canada
  • Lower Fort Garry National Historic Site of Canada
  • Port-Royal National Historic Site of Canada
  • Prince of Wales Tower National Historic Site of Canada
  • Rocky Mountain House National Historic Site of Canada
  • York Factory National Historic Site of Canada

Teacher's Corner

• Canadian Stories: The Fur Trade
• Commemorating Canada's History
  • People, Places, and Events:
    • Search the theme "fur trad

This Week in History Archives

• Search the keywords "fur trade"
• Relevant Results: "Commerce is Free! Hooray for Freedom!", "Prince Rupert Heads New Fur Company", "The New Eldorado", "British Capture Fort Frontenac", "Laperouse Captures Hudson Bay Forts", "Peace Treaty at Utrecht Changes Map of North America", "Wife Defends Fort La Tour in Husband's Absence"
   

What's New

• News Releases:
  • The Dispersal of the Huron-Wendat and Their Settlement in Wendake
  • Fort Garry-Fort Edmonton Trail National Historic Site of Canada
  • François Beaulieu II
  • Okenagan Brigade Trail National Historic Site of Canada
  • Thanadelthur
     

Check the bottom of the news releases for associated backgrounders.

Videos

• Places in Time (video) - segment on the "The Forks" National Historic Site of Canada
• Historylands (video) - Episode 15 - "The Front Line of the Fur Trade War"
   

Other Resources

• Aboriginal Canada Portal
  http://www.aboriginalcanada.gc.ca
• The Canoe: Portraits of the Great Fur Trade Canoes
  http://www.civilization.ca/hist/canoe/can00eng.html
• Contrasting Worlds: Book 1
  http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/curricul/cont-e.html
• Fur Institute of Canada
  http://www.fur.ca
• The Fur Trade at Lachine
  http://www.hbc.com/hbc/e_hi/stores/lachine.htm
• Heroes of Lore and Yore: Canadian Heroes in Fact and Fiction: Pierre-Esprit Radisson
  http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/2/6/h6-236-e.html
• Historica: The Adventurers Radisson and des Groseilliers
  http://www.hbc.com/hbc/e_hi/historic_hbc/radisson.htm
• Museum of Civilization www.civilization.ca. Search the keywords "fur trade."
• The National Atlas of Canada
  http://www.atlas.gc.ca
• Our History: The Hudson's Bay Company
  http://www.hbc.com/hbc/e_hi/default.htm
• Passageways: True Tales of Adventure for Young Explorers http://www.collectionscanada.ca/explorers/kids/index-e.html
• The Plains Cree Part One: A Historical and Ethnographic Study (information on la Verendrye)
  http://www.schoolnet.ca/aboriginal/plains_cree/part5-e.html
• Statistics Canada
  http://www.statcan.ca
• Exploring the Fur Trade Routes of North America by Barbara Huck. Heartland, 2000
• The Illustrated Voyageur: Paintings and Companion Stories by Howard Sivertson. Duluth, Minnesota: Lake Superior Port Cities, 1999
• "The Voyageur's Song," in Canada for Kids, Volume 1. Recorded by Michael Mitchell. Victoria, BC: MKM Music Productions Ltd.