The Lake County Forest Preserve has commissioned a floating museum of sorts that it hopes will educate people about the history of the county’s rivers and lakes. A 34-foot fiberglass canoe, p… ...

The voyageur-style canoe -- with a history dating back more than two centuries to the fur trade -- is like a schoolbus on the water, but enthusiasts love to barrel downriver in them.

Traders from the Northwest Fur Company in Montreal would load their birch bark canoes with metal pots and pans, scissors, linens, cloth, beads and other trade items and head southwest down a ...

Patrons of all ages filled the 34-foot-long Voyageur canoe at Hinckley Reservation on Saturday. The living history program will be offered again Oct. 12 at three different times. The program costs ...

A small team of paddlers has set off this spring, travelling 1,200 kilometres by canoe and portage from Tadoussac, Que., to James Bay. They'll be reviving an ancient route carved by fur traders ...

LynnAnne Vesper has been a canoe guide for over 20 years. She also speaks French and Swedish, is a Fur Trade history buff, ...

For the past three months, an Oneida Nation sculptor who goes by "Jason", has been hand crafting an authentic dugout canoe from a centuries-old tree in the Fur Trade area of Heritage Hill.

A small team of paddlers has set off this spring, travelling 1,200 kilometres by canoe and portage from Tadoussac, Que., to James Bay. They'll be reviving an ancient route carved by fur traders ...