Where are your Pants? Getting Dressed with a French Canadian Voyageur 

I grew up on my moms old log cabin farm at the tip of the mitt in MI. Her family were original voyageurs from Nova Scotia. She taught us survival fieldcraft and was an an amazing woman who could fish/hunt/trap super well. She grew up with a pet bear. e grew up learning to live in the woods of MI with nothing but our guns/bows/traps and a piece of pastic sometimes for cover otherwise we made small camp enclosures. It was an incredible time growing up with our parents teaching us the old ways that we have taught our children. We did many trip to Mackinaw Island and there is so much history in that area. Thank yiu for a great representation on just the utilitarian clothing style of the early voyageurs. Watching more on the channel!!!.

Gitchi Wegwetch for this. My great Great Grandfather was a voyageur. Our family is from the US side of Lake Superior.

Not only the French Canadian travelers wear this type of dress, but also the French Canadians of the militia wore this dress, and even civilians, it was comfortable and practical and above all an economic dress, where garments such as moccasins, leggings and breechcloth They were made by Native Americans and exchanged for other objects of interest, instead the pants came from Europe and were more expensive and impractical for hard work, in this sense the English thought very differently from the French, very good contribution.

This is so cool. The voyageurs are legendary and an iconic part of Canadian (and although forgotten, American history as well). My dream is to recreate a voyageur canoe trip - minus the cargo!

As I understand it the sash was also worn to avoid a hernia while portaging heavy loads.

They also sang in unison to keep time as they rowed. These formed the basis for the French-Canadian folk songs taught in Canadian schools today.

Fantastic, Merci!

Cool!

Very cool.

Verrrry cool! Thx :) From Montreal...

Some of my French Canadian ancestors were voyageurs.

Can you give me the individual names of all clothing and the shoes

"Some people" all of Canada calls that a toque😆

Nice video. A meter of cloth won't even begin to work for a breech cloth. 2 meters will do pretty well though. Otherwise, it's a good video about dress. TLhere doesn't seem to be alot of videos out there about period correct dress.

is that a real tattoo you got for your job?

Why did they wear so much red?

Originally Canayen

Why am I here?

Please pronounce it breechCLOUT, not breechCLOTH. Thank you!