Six Paddlers Retrace 1,200Km Canadian Fur Trade Canoe Route » Explorersweb

Six Paddlers Retrace 1,200Km Canadian Fur Trade Canoe Route » Explorersweb

On September 4, a six-strong team of mostly Canadian paddlers brought their canoes ashore in Waskaganish, a Cree community on James Bay. They had completed a 1,200km journey that began three months earlier in Tadoussac, Quebec, where the Saguenay River meets the St Lawrence. Their route traced a line across lakes, rivers, and portages that once formed a vital artery of the fur trade, linking the Gulf of St. Lawrence to the shores of the Arctic O…