Hey Canadians!!!

[Beowulf65]

Any good flicks on the Voyageurs?
I would love a flick on the Voyageurs, fiction or real.
I prefer real, documentaries and such but a movie will suffice.

[Riverrat]

There was one out called The Black Robe, more about a priest, but he traveled with voyagerous. Not to bad a movie.

[wareagle69]

funny but true story
the day you headed out i was playing hooky from work going to the island to do a dinner cruise, i stopped by a gift shop/craft shop they had allot of books on natives and the wild and such, i was explaining to the lady what i am into and she told me her some does re-enactments about voyaguers also he was headed to ottawa that weekend for one and i told her my freind was doing one furhter east.but anyways no book there but i am looking around here as my interset i growing in the era of 1200 to about 1700 will let ya know if i come across anything. only thing i have seen is one episode that ray mears did up here about them

[Riverrat]

Beo, this is not a movie, but may be a site you could get some info of off, hope it helps.
http://www.northwestjournal.ca/

[Beowulf65]

I got the movie Black Robe, very good flick.

[Beowulf65]

Riverrat, great site thanks bro,

[trax]

that link that Riverrat gave you there's the life story of David Thompson. They mention him getting his mapmaking training from Philip Turnor, Turnor is my great-great-great-great (I think that's all, that's pretty great) grandfather.

[crashdive123]

Wow! You're infamous......or something like that.

[Beowulf65]

So do you make maps, if so pm me I need one made of... never mind I just googled it:D Really though that is cool.

[trax]

I don't make maps, I follow tracks I try not to leave too many :).

Crash: it's a pretty long twisty line between great great whatever grandpa and me, and....well hardly anyone remembers who he is in the history books and from what I've read about him---not my favorite human being. I woulda been infamous anyway, lol.

[Rick]

Telling people to take the river and knowing full well there is a waterfall just a couple of miles downstream doesn't qualify as a map maker!

[trax]

Actually, he was pretty good at what he did, just not one of my favorite people based on what I read about his "personal" skills. He was the first person ever employed as a full time mapmaker by the Hudson Bay Company and charted most of Western Canada from Moose Factory to Fort Churchill and to the foothills of the Rockies. He trained David Thompson, Samuel Hearne and Peter Fidler and they all got kinda famous but he never really did.