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Voyage Immense

Devant la cascade avec Lea

Devant la cascade avec Lea

Our courageous four-week villagers had a wonderful Voyage Immense. We entered the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness at Saganaga Lake and paddled for eight days through to Duncan Lake, speaking…

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Les derniers jours.

And we’re back, safe and sound, from our Voyage in the woods!

Wednesday morning, after some songs and authentic voyageur games, we packed our bags, tents, and sandwiches and headed out on Turtle River Lake for our Voyage! Brigade Montreal…

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La derniere session…

And our last session begins!

Yesterday we welcomed our newest batch of Voyageurs chez nous! They’re here for one week to spend time vivre dans la foret and en francais. We’ve got two brigades of young voyageurs and one brigade…

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Au revoir, deuxieme session

After a challenging week of Grand Voyage, we’ve said au revoir to both our two and four week villagers!

Two-weekers headed out Saturday afternoon for their Grand Voyage. We took a different route than first session, so it was full…

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C’est parti…

We’re heading off for our Grand Voyage this afternoon!

The past few days have found us perfecting our camping and canoeing skills, playing more games (including a round of soccer in the woods), cooking more meals, doing more crafts, and…

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Ca commence!

Tout le monde au feu de camp! Front left around the circle: Ceclie, Julie, Helen, Isabelle, Ophelie, Louis, Georgette, Riviere, Eric, Marine, Ballerine, Luciole, Melodie, and Angele. Back row, left to right: Baptiste, L'Interprete, et Laurent.

Tout le monde au feu de camp! Front left around the circle: Ceclie, Julie, Helen, Isabelle, Ophelie, Louis, Georgette, Riviere, Eric, Marine, Ballerine, Luciole, Melodie, and Angele. Back row, left to right: Baptiste, L'Interprete, et

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On vous attend…

Over the past two days we’ve been tidying up the site in preparation for our next session. After sending off the previous two-week session on Saturday morning, we said aurevoir to the Odyssey four-weekers Sunday morning as they headed out…

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A Gallery of Memories

Here’s a selection of photos from the Grand Voyage. We had some technological issues and lost a few, but what we’ve got is pretty good!

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De retour!

Well, we’re back.

Etienne sur le grand lac

Etienne sur le grand lac

After a rainy night and morning spent at Chief Wooden Frog Campground in the Superior National Forest, we’ve made it back chez nous! Our ideal site was…

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Bon Voyage!

We’re all packed up and ready to go on our Grand Voyage! We’ve spent the past week preparing: lessons in feu, tentes, et VC Sauvage (fires, tents, and Wilderness Washrooms), not to mention honing our canoe skills. Yesterday we were…

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