Lisette's Journey

The Life, times, and travels of NorthWest Company fur trader Lisette Laval (Duval) Harmon (1799-1862) and of geographer and heritage interpreter Lynn Noel, following in her footsteps since 1988 through living history and experiential education

Friday, June 13, 2025

The Ermatinger Collection 1830: A New Research Inspiration for the Songs of the Voyageurs

It has been seven years since I last worked with Lisette's Journey and the songs of the fur trade. I've been caught up in the coun...

Monday, November 27, 2017

My November Project: A book-length draft of Lisette's Journey for #NaNoWriMo!

I did it! Thanks to NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), I have a very rough draft of a book-length manuscript of Lisette's Journ...

Saturday, November 25, 2017

Detailed StoryMap: 1806 to 1808 Saskatchewan to Ontario

Lisette's first journey with Daniel started when she was only fourteen, given to him as a "country wife" at South Branch House...

Sunday, October 15, 2017

An Orphan of the Company: Lisette's Parentage At Last Revealed

Whenever I'm revisiting Lisette's Journey for an upcoming gig, I do a Google search on keywords related to Lisette and Daniel Harmon...

Living History as Cultural Exploration, Not Colonization

“Some purists believe that creating a theatrical piece embodying the stories and myths of a culture without the native storyteller present, ...

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