He is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Ottawa. He spent the last two years as the project manager of the Voyageur Database Project under the direction of Dr. Nicole St-Onge. Robert's doctoral dissertation examines the social and economic roles of voyageurs and merchants in maintaining a French river world after the fall of New France.
His articles for the Manitoba Historical Society:
Diverging Identities and Converging Interests: Corporate Competition, Desertion, and Voyageur Agency, 1815 - 1818
Manitoba History, Number 55, June 2007
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