With Pipe Paddle & Song

Son of a French nobleman and a Chippewa Indian woman, Guilluame has spent half of his life in his father's Montreal chateau, half in his mother's village. When his father returns to France the sixteen-year-old is determined to make his own way in the world. He signs up with a rough and ready crew of voyaguers ready to start on their journey into the wilds of Canada to bring back the rich furs that have made New France prosperous. All his life he has heard of the perilous waterways and dangerous portages, but Guilluame feels he can prove himself worthy. ""Moi, je suis un homme moi, je suis voyageur! Me, I am a man, me, I am a voyageur!