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We sat by the fire that night listening to more stories about the Boundary Waters and the French voyageurs who opened them to the world in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2016

"I don't know about the voyageurs," he said.

From US News • Jun. 24, 2016

Little has changed along the aquatic thoroughfares that crisscross large swaths of northern Quebec and Ontario, allowing the creative canoeist to retrace the experiences of these voyageurs, battling the same rapids in similar solitude.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2011

Papa La Fleur, an old man, descendant of French voyageurs, lived peacefully with his two daughters, made a living by keeping bees on an island in the river.

From Time Magazine Archive

Onto the shirt, she had sewn four carefully hoarded brass buttons, gleaming, each marked with the French flower that the voyageurs called fleur-de-lis.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich