Voyageur Information

Here are some links with information about voyageur life and the history of fur trading and even Hudson's bay company!

Information about Voyageur life and fur trading
Hudsons bay company history and the fur trade

Animals used for fur trading

 

 

Weekly Update; Voyageur Week!

Hello parents and students!

I hope everyone had a great long weekend,  I had the opportunity to attend some very interesting sessions at teacher’s convention last week that I hope will help me implement some new ideas in class. Pioneer day last Tuesday was a great success, the students got a taste of what life was like for a pioneer child and I’m sure have many stories to share with you about the day (Ask them what it was like writing with ‘kid friendly’ quills and ink!)  

This week will be the start of our voyageur week, in conjunction with our prairie inquiry work I thought it would be a good idea to explore the notion of trading posts, the Hudson bay company’s influence and the effect that has had on shaping Canadian communities.  Since we have been learning about Winnipeg, one of the prairie communities we are studying we will celebrate a festival they hold every year in the city called Festival du Voyageur.  We will celebrate the festival on Friday with a variety of stations and activities throughout the day, it should be a fun and memorable time for the students!  To get in the voyageur spirit I will encourage the students to dress up as they would have!  Some suggestions for voyageur wear could be a toque (red if you have it!) a plaid, lumberjack style shirt,  suspenders, sashes…. This is of course optional; it’s just a fun idea if the students feel like dressing up to get into the voyageur spirit!

Ms. Q

More pioneer links

 Hello students and parents!  Feel free to browse the links to get ideas for pioneer day!

Travel back in time
Prairie images
Pioneers of the west
Pioneer life
'Letters from the trunk' interesting interactive site to learn about immigrants and settlers coming west
Search photographs on the Glenbow site
Games about pioneer life

All images from the Glenbow museum website.