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Investigation 5
Preparing to Write Your Voyageur Journals

Answer the following questions after reading pages 66-73 in your

Northern Lights textbook.

1. How was a voyageur hired on by a company?

2. Upon being hired, what did a voyageur receive?

3. What were some of the duties voyageurs agreed to do as a result of

being hired on with the trading company?

4. When did the fur trading season begin?

5. What were the destinations of most of the brigades?

6. Why were the voyageur songs important?

7. What was the significance of St. Ann’s church in the voyageur’s journey?

8. Why was traveling across the Great Lakes such a dangerous endeavor?

9. What happened to Paterson and his Montreal Canoe?

10. What is the rendezvous at Grand Portage?

11. Describe some of the sights and sounds of this time at the fur
trading post.