Camp History
This River Runs adjacent to Camp
What is the Kawishiwi river?
This sought-after trade good was the driving force of the fur trade.
What is the Beaver pelt?
This flightless bird from New Zealand has nostrils at the end of its long beak, and is also the name of a fruit.
What is a kiwi?
The minnesota state tree.
What is the Red Pine?
You’ll find this cheese sliced alongside tomatoes and basil in a traditional Caprese salad.
What is mozzarella?
This Camp Voyageur staff member placed 3rd in the state in the 50m freestyle as a ten year old.
Who is Kevin O'Kane?
After months on the water, voyageurs often gathered and celebrated with dancing and storytelling at this fur trade rendezvous site in northern Minnesota.
What is the Grand Portage?
This bird native to Antartica is an amatuer turned proffesional surfer who is friends with a chicken.
Who is cody Maverick
A member of the pinus family this trees pinecones are covered in a resin which melts at 112 degrees fairenheit meaning seeds typically spread via fire
What is the Jack pine?
This soft French cheese is often served at room temperature or baked in puff pastry, known for its creamy interior and white, edible rind this cheese pairs perfectly with fruit and nuts.
What is brie?
It is in this decade that Jon and Deb started running the camp
What were the 80s?
Two lakes in the eastern portion of the boundary waters are connected by this prolific portage where voyaguers held ceremony and where the height of land was.
What is north and south lake?
The largest bird in the world, this African native can run up to 45 mph.
What is an Ostrich?
This tree is often used to make baseball bats. Known for its distinctive helicopter like seeds this type of tree is sadly under attack by a little green bug.
What is the Ash Tree?
This type of cheese is made by curdling milk with rennet or an acid and then draining the whey, often fresh and unripened.
What is Cottage Cheese?
It is in this decade that the basketball court was paved.
What were the 60s?
During the height of the fur trade in the 18th and early 19th centuries, this Indigenous nation was a key partner to French and later British traders in the Minnesota region—supplying beaver pelts, guiding voyageurs, and maintaining extensive trade networks across the Great Lakes and beyond.
Who are the Ojibwe?
This colorful Rainforest Dweller is responsible for 200+ recorded attacks and even some human deaths
What is a Cassowary?
Interconnected through their root systems this tree forms a complex network that enables communication, resource-sharing, and mutual support. This tree is often confused for a birch and is known to quake.
What is the Aspen tree?
This crumbly white cheese, originally from Greece, is traditionally made from sheep’s milk or a mix of sheep and goat’s milk.
What is Feta?
A CV motorboat is named after this famous author
Who is Mark Twain?
A fur trade employee who stayed the winter inland at trading posts.
Whats is a Hivernant?
In the backyard of a dairyqueen in mcrgregor Minnesota their is a small crew of what flightless bird
What is an emu?
One of the few trees that is coniferous but not an evergreen
What is the Tamarack?
In 2008, Italy cracked down on counterfeit versions of this iconic cheese, finding fake wheels stored in garages and made outside the legal PDO(Protected Designation of Origin) region.
What is Parmigiano-Reggiano?