Title

Migration Routes of the Fur-Traders & Voyageurs Through Canada, the US Mid-West, and the Pacific Northwest Corridor

Outline

  1. Introduction
  2. Who & What Were These People Known as The Fur-Traders & Voyageurs?
  3. Why Did These Early Adventurers Move Into Unchartered Territories?
  4. Was There Any Specific Place Where Their Migrations Began and Why?
  5. What Migration Routes Did These Men Tend to Follow & Why?
  6. What was Their Impact with Regard to Settlement and Meld with the Native Society in Place?
  7. What Territorial Issues Affected the Region Resulting From These Incursions?
  8. What Genealogical Issues Need to be Addressed and What Resources/Repositories are Available for Research Into These Early Settlers?
  9. Summation & Commentary

Summary

No group is more responsible for foraging trails and expanding the West than the early immigrants that became fur-traders and voyageurs. Many were of French (France & Quebec) ancestry but not all as the fur trading companies had, later, an active part in hiring men from overseas to work in the New World, primarily from Scotland, England, and Ireland.

This lecture will discuss the importance of their place in expanding the uncharted territories, the migration patterns they tended to use while in the British colony of Upper Canada through to the culturally impacted Pacific Northwest Corridor & American mid-west river basins, how these routes affected settlement & territorial issues, and what genealogical issues need to be addressed, along with the major resources & repositories that are available for conducting this early research.

Lecture History

Audience Level

Intermediate

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