Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (17 November 1685 – 5 December 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer...
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Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye de Boumois (December 1, 1714 – September 13, 1755) was the second son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye...
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Jean-Baptiste Gaultier de la Vérendrye (September 3, 1713 – June 6, 1736) was the eldest son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye and Marie-Anne...
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The site of Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes lies in Ojibwa country. Canadian pioneer explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye traveled through the...
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explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, in the 1730s. It is not mentioned in the official records of La Vérendrye's expeditions, but in 1749...
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with two of the La Vérendrye sons, Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye and Pierre Gaultier de La Vérendrye, who had been actively involved in this project...
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Fort La Reine was built in 1738 and is one of the forts of the western expansion directed by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, first military...
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Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye, a nephew of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye. Chaussegros de Léry was not given any opportunities by the...
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Beauharnois connection stood him in good stead. In 1744, when Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye lost the western commanders position of directing the...
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François de La Vérendrye (1715 – 31 July 1794) was a Canadian explorer. He was the third son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye. He was...
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where present day Portage la Prairie stands. Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye travelled southwest from Fort La Reine to the area of the Missouri...
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de Varennes et de La Vérendrye). He succeeded Jacques Legardeur de Saint-Pierre and set out in June 1753 with 57 men, leaving his brother Luc de la Corne...
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de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese politician (b. 1658) June 6 – Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye, explorer of New France, eldest son of Pierre Gaultier...
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in four non-contiguous parts). It is named after Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, a French-Canadian explorer. Located 180 kilometres...
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in 1682), was destroyed by rival French traders. Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, visited the Red River Valley in the 1730s to help...
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Lawrence Armstrong Governor of Placentia: Samuel Gledhill Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye was appointed commandant of the French posts on the...
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began his trek toward there following the route of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye through Rainy Lake, Lake of the Woods and the Winnipeg...
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Ottoman reconquest of the Morea. 1738 – Canadian explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake Michigan. 1799 – Tekle...
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trader Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye. The first European, Jacques de Noyon, sighted Lake of the Woods in 1688. Pierre de La Vérendrye established...
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Saône-et-Loire département Flight to Varennes Varenne (disambiguation) Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, a Canadian explorer This disambiguation...
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(died 1731) November 17 – Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye, French Canadian explorer (died 1749) February 2 – Pierre Bourdelot, French physician...
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(King George's War). Nicolas-Joseph de Noyelles de Fleurimont succeeded Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye as the Commandant of the western French...
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d. May 10, 1736), was the lieutenant and nephew of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye in the exploratory party that headed west from Fort...
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subsequently became a chaplain to the French and joined Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye and his party as they began a serious exploration of...
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Life in Early Canada. New York: Macmillan. p. 82. "Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye". L'Encyclopédie Canadienne (in French). Retrieved July...
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military chaplain to the legendary Voyageur explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye at Fort St. Charles, on the Northwest Angle of what...
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during the late-17th century, with the French under Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye set up several trading post forts. In 1670, Britain...
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begin on the island. From 1712 to 1727, explorer Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, lived on the island and his five children were born...
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Sea of the West (redirect from Mer de l'Ouest)
hand, were interested in the fur trade. In 1731, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye was hired with the dual commissions of exploration...
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Rainy Lake (redirect from Lac la Pluie)
Tekamamigovouen" on the Thomas Jefferys 1762 Map of Canada). Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye said that the name was a corruption from the Cree...
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