Sentence examples for of voyageurs from inspiring English sources

The next European explorers of the river appeared in 1673 out of French Canada two canoe loads of voyageurs commanded by Louis Jolliet, a French government agent, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest.

She's in the midst of a mediation process to ease community tensions over the management of Voyageurs and its federal neighbor, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area wilderness, administered by the U.S. Forest Service.

Immediately south of Voyageurs National Park and extending to the Vermilion fault is a broad transition zone that contains migmatite.

The region had been occupied by Métis people, the children of voyageurs and Native Americans, since the middle 17th century.

This Rainy Lake Seine Riverer fault zone is a major northeast-southwest trending strike-slip fault zone; it trends N80°E to cut through the northwest part of Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota and extends westward to near International Falls, Minnesota and Fort Frances, Ontario.

"It's a practical guide to respond to any situation," said Jean-Francois Rial, CEO of Voyageurs du Monde, which put up half of the 10,000 euros ($11,200) it cost to publish the guide book.

"At the time the decision was made, we were going through what appeared to be a financial Armageddon," Mr. Larson of Voyageur said.

We had set out two days before -- Tom Thulen, a photographer; Mike Prom of Voyageur Canoe Outfitters, from whom we rented our winter camping gear; and me -- on a sunny late-January morning when the thermometer read 13 below, and winds gusted to 20 miles per hour.

Commenting on Minnesota's culture of the 1840s, Governor Alexander Ramsey described the streets of Saint Paul saying that it was common to see "the blankets and painted faces of Indians, and the red sashes and mocassins of French voyageurs and half-breeds, greatly predominating over the less picturesque costume of the Anglo-American race".

However, scores of the men went inland with trading canoes, and some of these voyageurs remained inland permanently, marrying Indian women and fathering the Métis, people of mixed French and Indian ancestry.

There we learned of the voyageurs, those intrepid canoeists who fanned out across the northern reaches of North America to create a new economy, and ultimately a new consciousness.