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Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (17 November 1685 – 5 December 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer. [1] In the 1730s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and established trading posts there.
A map of the area of operations of the La Vérendrye family The French founded Quebec City in 1608 and soon built a fur trade empire throughout the Saint Lawrence River basin. From about 1690, they expanded southwest into the Mississippi River basin hoping to bottle up the English along the Atlantic coast.
La Vérendrye Reserve is a popular park for outdoor activities in all seasons. In the winter, snowmobiling can be done on trails through the park. In the spring there are whitewater rivers to canoe, in particular the Gens de Terre River. In the summer it is a great place for fishing, hiking, swimming, and canoe camping.
The BWCAW within the Superior National Forest. The BWCAW extends along 150 miles (240 km) of the Canadian border in the Arrowhead Region of Minnesota. The combined region of the BWCAW, Superior National Forest, Voyageurs National Park, and Ontario's Quetico and La Verendrye provincial parks make up a large area of contiguous wilderness lakes and forests called the "Quetico-Superior country ...
The route from Fort William was slightly farther north. The two routes led to and joined at Lac La Croix. [15] Each was a rendezvous point of sorts for the routes that reached into the interior. The other main route started at York Factory where the Hayes River empties into Hudson Bay. [15] It led to Norway House on Lake Winnipeg. Later, the ...
The La Vérendrye Trail (French: Le chemin La Vérendrye) is a series of highways in the Canadian province of Manitoba commemorating the oldest waterway fur-trading route in the province. [1] It is named after Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye , an explorer and fur-trader who is often credited as being the first European to ...
The Dumoine River is a river in western Quebec with its source in Machin Lake near La Vérendrye Wildlife Reserve.From Dumoine Lake, the river flows almost due south off the Canadian Shield and empties into the Ottawa River, just west of Rapides-des-Joachims, Quebec, or Rolphton, Ontario.
See Canadian canoe routes (early). To the southeast the route ran to Grand Portage and the French center at Montreal. To the northeast the Hayes River led to the English base on Hudson Bay. To the northwest the Saskatchewan River led west to the Rocky Mountains. From this river another route led northwest to the even richer Athabasca Country.