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    Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636/1640–1710) was a French coureur des bois and explorer in New France. He is often linked to his brother-in-law Médard des Groseilliers...
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    village is located within the Town of Radisson and was named in honor of the early French explorer, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c.1636–1710). According to the United...
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  • fur trader in Canada. He is often paired with his brother-in-law Pierre-Esprit Radisson, who was about 20 years younger. The pair worked together in fur...
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    of the City of Winnipeg and is named after Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a seventeenth-century explorer. Radisson is bordered on the east by Transcona and Springfield...
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    Radisson is a town in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It was named after Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636–1710), an explorer who was instrumental in...
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    since. The vessel is named for Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a 17th-century French fur trader and explorer. The Pierre Radisson class were designed for Canadian...
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  • of Ottawa. In 2020, his biography of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Bush Runner: The Adventures of Pierre-Esprit Radisson, won the RBC Taylor Prize for literary...
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    demoted from being the empress to being a concubine. October 29 – Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a French Canadian teenager who had been captured by a Mohawk raiding...
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    brother, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, also became a notable figure in the fur trade and is often mentioned in the same breath as des Groseilliers. Radisson and...
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  • named after the 17th-century French explorer, ranger, and furrier Pierre-Esprit Radisson, cofounder of the Hudson's Bay Company. The building was sixteen...
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    and named by the Société de développement de la Baie James after Pierre-Esprit Radisson, a 17th-century French explorer and founder of the Hudson's Bay...
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    ship whom he buried there." The French explorers and fur traders Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers had scouted the area, learning from...
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    families were harshly punished; for instance, the French fur trader Pierre-Esprit Radisson was captured by an Iroquois raiding party as a teenager, was adopted...
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    Ville-Marie to provide medical aid to the settlement. 1654-59: Pierre-Esprit Radisson, French Sieur de Groselliers, encounters many tribes throughout...
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    Two French traders, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers (Médard de Chouart, Sieur des Groseilliers), Radisson's brother-in-law, learned...
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    and was originally an eight-room building. Radisson was named for famed fur trader Pierre-Esprit Radisson, the unanimous choice of the students. Margaret...
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  • the Hudson's Bay Company through its retail stores. A trapper, Pierre Esprit Radisson, and his friend, nicknamed "Gooseberry," hope to open a trading...
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  • 1682, Allemand was a pilot on an expedition to Hudson Bay led by Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers. The expedition returned to Quebec in...
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    station accessible was underway. The station is named for rue Radisson. Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c. 1640–1710) was a French explorer who was instrumental in...
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  • Radisson station, a subway station of the Montreal Metro Radisson Substation, an electrical substation near Radisson, Quebec Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636–1710)...
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    first known visit by Europeans to the area was around 1659 when Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers travelled from Chequamegon Bay on Lake...
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    Bay Company and guided by the French fur trader and adventurer Pierre-Esprit Radisson successfully reached the Nelson estuary. Landing in September, the...
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    European men. Two French fur traders, Médard des Groseilliers and Pierre-Esprit Radisson, built a hut somewhere on the west shore of the bay, probably in...
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    located in major cities across Canada. HMCS Radisson is named after 17th century explorer Pierre Esprit Radisson who conducted explorations and participated...
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    Rupert's attention had turned to North America. The French explorers Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers had come to England after conducting...
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  • The first known visit by Europeans to the area was around 1660. Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers travelled from Chequamegon Bay on Lake...
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    Nicolet in 1620, Jean de Brébeuf in 1626, Gabriel Lallemant in 1648, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers in 1658, La Verendrye in 1731, Alexander...
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    Seven Years' War in Europe. The 1659–1660 voyage of French traders Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers into the country north and west...
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    haut (upper country around the Great Lakes) at the time. In 1659, Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers reached the western end of Lake...
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    British expansion into Canada. The fur-trapping duo of explorers Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard des Groseilliers convinced the English Crown, primarily...
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