On the northern shores of Minnesota lies a remote waterscape steeped in history, nature, and tradition.

Named for the wild men who paddled its waterways in the Canadian fur trade,

Voyager's National Park is home to nestling bald eagles, moose, gray wolves, black bears,

loons, owls, otters, beavers, and a vast array of other wildlife.

Most of its hidden waterways remain untouched and pristine boreal forests cover the landscape, where on a cloudless pre-dawn

morning, under the northern lights, you can almost hear the echo of the songs sung by fur

traders traveling in their massive canoes. Celebrated as legendary heroes in song and story,

the Voyagerie reached an almost celebrity status.

But their existence in the remote northern wilderness was not as glamorous as most folk tales lead people to believe.

Traveling from sunrise to sunset along a 3,000 mile waterway from Montreal to Lake Athabaska. The Voyager's highway tells

of an epic journey repeated annually over the span of decades. I'm Jason Epperson, and this

week on Parkography, the legendary wild and hearty Voyager and the waterways of the Great

North. They traveled for nearly 200 years.

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When French explorer Jacques Cartier embarked on the first of his three voyages into the Gulf of St. Lawrence,

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