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French Voyagers & Minnesota's Fur Trade
This Fur Trade Experience presentation will guide the audience to understand how the French Voyageurs were among the first Europeans to explore and make maps of what would become Minnesota. Guests will meet Black Jacque Shalaque, an authentically costumed voyageur who makes Minnesota?s colorful fur trade come to life. Through his colorful portrayal of a voyageur, Mr. Kind will have you up and involved through hands-on interactive living history activities where you will role-play the parts of voyageurs and the proud indigenous people of Minnesota as you trade furs for trade goods and then simulate the paddling of a 35 foot Montreal canoe.