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- What food did the voyageurs eat?
- What did the fur traders eat?
- What do voyageurs eat for breakfast?
- What did a voyageur do?
- What did a voyageur look like?
- How much did the voyageurs get paid?
- What did the voyageurs eat for lunch?
- What is pemmican Why was it a good food for voyageurs?
- What did trappers eat?
- What did voyageurs do in the winter?
- Are voyageurs Metis?
- What did voyageurs use for shelter at night?
- What language did the voyageurs speak?
- What does Voyageur mean in English?
- Why did the fur trade end?
What food did the voyageurs eat?
The voyageurs ate a mid-day snack of pemmican and biscuit around 2:00 p.m., while paddling. At night, they settled by the firelight to enjoy a meal of pemmican, dried peas, or cornmeal. Cornmeal was made into hominy, a type of thick white porridge combined with bacon fat or bear grease for added taste.
What did the fur traders eat?
The food also had to keep and not spoil during the long journey. Their diet included biscuits, pork and beans, pancakes, dried peas, cornmeal and pemmican (dried meat that could be eaten fried, or even made into a stew seasoned with maple syrup or berries). Voyageurs didn't eat fancy meals, but the meals were hearty.
What do voyageurs eat for breakfast?
One observer recorded that a voyageur's daily allowance of food included no more than a quart of Indian maize and one pound of grease. On other occasions they had pemmican (a greasy dried-meat mixture), wild oats and wheat, and dried meat or fish.
What did a voyageur do?
Voyageurs were independent contractors, workers or minor partners in companies involved in the fur trade. They were licensed to transport goods to trading posts and were usually forbidden to do any trading of their own. The fur trade changed over the years, as did the groups of men working in it.
What did a voyageur look like?
Voyageurs could be identified by their distinctive clothing. They often wore a red toque and a sash around their waist. The white cotton shirt was protection from the sun and mosquitoes. They also wore breeches with leggings and moccasins.
How much did the voyageurs get paid?
The wintering voyageurs were paid once a year at Grand Portage, but they were paid in goods or in vouchers for merchandise from the company-run story. Because of the inflated prices at Grand Portage, the pay was worth only two-thirds of what it would have been in Montreal.
What did the voyageurs eat for lunch?
They ate native foods such as berries, nuts and wild rice. They traded goods for wild rice, fish, and dried peas. The also ate pemmican, which is dried buffalo.
What is pemmican Why was it a good food for voyageurs?
Cooled and sewn into bison-hide bags in 41 kg lots, pemmican was a dense, high-protein and high-energy food that could be stored and shipped with ease to provision voyageurs in the fur trade travelling in the prairie regions where, especially in winter, food could be scarce.
What did trappers eat?
When food was scarce, as the trappers said, "meat was meat." By this they meant that in hard times they would eat just about anything. This included beaver, rabbits, and other small animals. In really hard times, the trappers ate their own pack animals, and in some cases even their own moccasins.
What did voyageurs do in the winter?
Some voyageurs stayed in the back country over the winter and transported the trade goods from the posts to farther away French outposts. These men were known as the hivernants (winterers). They also helped negotiate trade in indigenous communities.
Are voyageurs Metis?
French-Canadian voyageurs lived in Métis communities and married Aboriginal women à la façon du pays (according to the custom of the country). The French-Canadian voyageurs passed on a vibrant folk culture with a love of storytelling, recounting legends, singing and dancing on to the Métis.
What did voyageurs use for shelter at night?
Voyageurs outside the palisade
At night they took shelter under overturned canoes or in primitive tents.
What language did the voyageurs speak?
Although the new employers were English, the working language would remain French. In Making the Voyageur World, Carolyn Podruchny estimates the number of voyageurs at 500 in 1784, 1,500 in 1802 and 3,000 in 1821 at the height of the fur trade.
What does Voyageur mean in English?
Definition of voyageur
: a man employed by a fur company to transport goods to and from remote stations especially in the Canadian Northwest.
Why did the fur trade end?
The fur trade started to decline in the Eastern United States by the late 1700's. The decline resulted chiefly from the clearing of large areas for settlement. As more and more land was cleared, fur-bearing animals became increasingly scarce.
