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From Chapter 2: Birch-Bark Canoes
Frederic Remington, Evening on a Canadian Lake, ca 1908. Library of Congress.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Frederic Remington’s drawing of a voyageur struggling with his load illustrates the use of a tumpline across the top of his forehead to help distribute the weight more evenly. ‘Tumpline’ is based on the Algonquian word for line.
From Chapter 3: The Fur Trade
Music played an important role in the daily life of the voyageurs, from songs to help keep time while paddling to entertaining each other at the end of a long workday.
From Chapter 4: All-Wood Canoes
Frederic Remington illustration of a Rushton American Traveling Canoe.