The 18th Century Fur Trade Polluted Lake Superior’s Shore With Mercury That’s Never Gone Away The area’s elevated mercury levels aren’t healthy for fish, birds or humans ...

Explore the best of Minnesota's North Shore with a sprawling road trip that takes you from Duluth all the way to a small town ...

An 8.5-mile footpath between the Grand Portage depot on Lake Superior and Fort Charlotte inland was a vital link around waterfalls and rapids connecting the Great Lakes to the fur-rich Rupert’s ...

After the fur-trade era, Ojibwe people remained near Gichi Onigamiing. The first Treaty of La Pointe (1842) reserved the right of the Lake Superior and Mississippi River Ojibwe to use the portage.

To be part of the fur trade in the 1700s-1800s meant navigating an “aquatic highway” that included Lake Superior and connected the backcountry with Montreal, Silbernagel wrote in “The ...

THUNDER BAY, Ontario — Even the Minnesota-born learned a lot at the Grand Portage National Monument's interpretive center, which opened in 2007.

Grand Portage was a pivotal location as the fur trade expanded into western Canada. Between the mid-1700s and early 1800s, thousands of people shuttled supplies and fur across the portage that ...

In Margi Preus’s middle-grade novel “The Littlest Voyageur,” a pesky red squirrel spars with eight men named Jean on a river journey in 18th-century French Canada.

Park ranger Karl Koster, who has worked at Grand Portage for 19 seasons, described what the grand portage itself — a well-trodden, 8.5-mile portage that cut through the forest from Lake Superior ...

One suspect is the former fur trade. The monument is homage to the 18th century fur trade route of the Ojibwe people and the North West Company, ... “For fish caught from Lake Superior ...