Wild Waters: Inside a Voyageur's World

Tomma, a young Haudenosaunee, signs his first contract as a voyageur with the Hudson's Bay Company. He joins his uncle and other Iroquois paddlers, as they were called by the newcomers, to follow the routes of the fur trade from Montreal to the Pacific Coast. For Governor George Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company, profits always come first, but for the Iroquois and Canadiens, today's French Canadians, in their swift birchbark canoes, this is their life and their fight for survival. As they face the terrifying Fraser River at Hell's Gate, there is no turning back. Does Tomma's loyalty life with the almighty Bay or with his love of freedom?