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Canadian Vignettes: Voyageurs. A Film Board of Canada vignette; Festival du Voyageur Archived 2008-12-18 at the Wayback Machine; US National Park Service page on voyageurs; Canadian Museum of Civilization: Virtual Museum of New France: Les Coureurs des Bois; Coppenrath Collection of Voyageur Contracts, Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill ...
This group took several trips together before and after that journey and became known as The Voyageurs. In the 1960s, Eric and a younger group of paddlers traveled long stretches of Canada's far north including Eric's favorite river, the Coppermine (1966) and the Thelon (1962).
The Corps of Voyageurs was organized on the initiative of the North West Company, and its bourgeois and engagés became the officers and men of the corps. [2] The Provincial Commissariat Voyageurs had one lieutenant-colonel, one major, one captain, ten lieutenants, ten conductors (sergeants acting as guides), and about 400 private men.
Canada Vignettes were shown on both in prime time and during children's programming slots. The most popular film in the series to air on Canadian television was Canada Vignettes: Faces , an animated short that depicted the faces of Canada, including that of then Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau .
A landscape typical of the Boundary Waters region (Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota) Protected areas along the international boundary Coordinates: 48°06′00″N 91°37′12″W / 48.100°N 91.620°W / 48.100; -
The Nile Voyageurs were a force of Canadian volunteers who served in the Sudan with British forces as part of the Nile Expedition from 1884 to 1885. [1] Though they were civilian volunteers, serving as boatmen for the British Army , they can be considered Canada’s first overseas contingent of war volunteers.
From here to Lake of the Woods the voyageurs' route went northwest across the 9 mile (14 km) long Grand Portage to avoid the falls and canyon of the Pigeon River, thence along the present international border west up the 50 miles (80 km) long Pigeon River and Arrow River to South Lake, and then across the 400 metres (1,300 ft) Height of Land ...
The Voyageurs is an unofficial Canadian soccer supporters group founded in 1996, notable for their support of Canada's national teams, awarding of the annual Voyageurs Cup [1] for men's club soccer, and influence in the Canadian soccer media.