Bonjour!
The Voyageur field trip is truly a hands on experience in history, and camaraderie.
The purpose of this program is to introduce students to the fur trade era and the lives of it's most colorful participants, the Voyageurs.
Students will engage in a role play by paddling a Voyageur canoe and learning about the Voyageur way of life. You Will step into the past with Jean Paul Pauquette and Jacques Largillier as their guide.
They will become part of the fur trade as Voyageurs hired by the NORTH WEST CO. and learn the main points of the fur trade, from the rich European investors, the natives and trappers , to the "Plu" or pelts mostly the beaver being the standard of currency.
The students will also paddle the time machine back to the beginning of exploration of the Fox River by Father Marquette, and Louis Jolliet at the futherest most French outpost. The history of the Fox River, and the importance of river travel will be witnessed by the types of bridges, and the high banks left by the dredger when straightening out the river.
Historical texts are not a clear lens that zooms in on the past to tell us faithfully how the world really was. Rather, as lenses they are chipped, cracked, and fogged, laced with errors, omissions, silent assumptions, and preconceptions. They don't reflect the past so much as refract it. Some sources are more like a kaleidoscope than a microscope. they fragment and rearrange the past rather than reveal it in a true form.
It is our attempt to relive this part of the past and in doing so gain a clear view into the hardships and colorful way of life of the voyageurs. A variety of wild life and other sights & sounds will make this a most rememberable trip for young & old alike.
Vive la compangie!!!
The purpose of this program is to introduce students to the fur trade era and the lives of it's most colorful participants, the Voyageurs.
Students will engage in a role play by paddling a Voyageur canoe and learning about the Voyageur way of life. You Will step into the past with Jean Paul Pauquette and Jacques Largillier as their guide.
They will become part of the fur trade as Voyageurs hired by the NORTH WEST CO. and learn the main points of the fur trade, from the rich European investors, the natives and trappers , to the "Plu" or pelts mostly the beaver being the standard of currency.
The students will also paddle the time machine back to the beginning of exploration of the Fox River by Father Marquette, and Louis Jolliet at the futherest most French outpost. The history of the Fox River, and the importance of river travel will be witnessed by the types of bridges, and the high banks left by the dredger when straightening out the river.
Historical texts are not a clear lens that zooms in on the past to tell us faithfully how the world really was. Rather, as lenses they are chipped, cracked, and fogged, laced with errors, omissions, silent assumptions, and preconceptions. They don't reflect the past so much as refract it. Some sources are more like a kaleidoscope than a microscope. they fragment and rearrange the past rather than reveal it in a true form.
It is our attempt to relive this part of the past and in doing so gain a clear view into the hardships and colorful way of life of the voyageurs. A variety of wild life and other sights & sounds will make this a most rememberable trip for young & old alike.
Vive la compangie!!!

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