Marquette – French Canadian Heritage Day will be celebrated on Saturday, October 31 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Beaumier U.P. Heritage Center on the campus of Northern Michigan University.
There will be presentations, demonstrations and music related to voyageur and French Canadian culture. Featured will be Timothy Kent, a scholar, lecturer and author on fur trade and voyageur history. He and his family, including their dog Toby, paddled the 3,000 mile mainline fur trade canoe route across North America, and after two decades researching and replicating the main articles of native daily life and the primary French trade goods, he and his family vacationed living in wilderness settings with only those articles.
Events scheduled are:
10:30 a.m.— Presentation on the French colonial and fur trade era by historian Tim Kent.
12 to 4 p.m. — Fur Trade Demonstrations by Tim Kent. Wooden Canoe displays by the Wooden Canoe Heritage Association.
1 to 2:30 p.m. — French-Canadian music by the Maple Sugar Folks and Dlutkowski Sisters
Events will take place both indoors at the Center and outside on the lawn next to Gries Hall. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call Dan Truckey at 227-3212.
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