So rendezvous is a French term for gathering, very common in the in the North American fur trade.

People will see if you come to rendezvous days at Grand Portage, Minnesota.

This weekend.

Always the second weekend in August.

All sorts of hands on activities of history.

To be here, doing this kind of thing is is wonderful.

And even seeing this site, I mean, as far as national parks and national monuments go, this probably isn't up there with the Grand Canyon, but yet it's a great place with an amazingly rich history.

I think that living history or historical interpretation is really important because it connects with people in ways that books or lectures or websites can't.

We're hosted in Montreal.

I hope that, more people would come to Grand Portage or Gichi-onigamiing, that's a wonderful place to gather, to learn history, to celebrate culture, native culture, non-native culture, and, points in between.

The slice from PBS North.