On the northern shores of Minnesota lies a remote water skate 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 nesting bald eagles, moose, grey wolves,

black bear, lunes, owls, Otter, and Beaver.

Most of its hidden waterways are untouched, pristine boreal forest,

where on a cloudless pre-dawn morning under the northern lights, you can almost hear the songs

of fur traders traveling in their massive canoes.

On this episode of America's national parks, the Voyager, the legendary wild and

hardy men who traversed the waterways of the Great North for 200 years. Oh, um, oh, oh, oh,

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mmm, As the demand for fur from North America peaked in the second half of the 17th century,

the French established trade with the native people, developing routes into the eastern

Great Lakes region and beyond, the Hudson Bay Company was founded in 1670, setting up trade

posts along the shore of its namesake bay. Nearly 100 years later, as the supply of firm the East diminished,

the Northwest Company was formed to explore the Northwest Territory

and engage the indigenous people in trade.

No route was passable by ship. Instead, the Northwest Company hatched a plan

to send out brigades of canoes to traverse new France's waterways. They hired men called Voyager to paddle 10 to a boat along a 3,000 mile

route between Montreal and Lake Athabasca. It was known as the Voyager Highway. Marr of the Nādālai Russian.

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