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The terms voyageur, explorateur, and coureur des bois have had broad and overlapping uses, but their meanings in the context of the fur trade business were more distinct. . Voyageurs were canoe transportation workers in organized, licensed long-distance transportation of furs and trade goods in the interior of the contine
Paul Durand-Lapie, Le comte d'Escayrac de Lauture, Voyageur et explorateur français, commandeur de la Légion d'Honneur, Paris : Champion, 1899, 180 p. Victor-Adolphe Malte-Brun, « Notice sur les voyages et les travaux de M. le Comte d'Escayrac de Lauture » in Bulletin de la Société de géographie , janvier à juin 1869, 5e série, t.XVII ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Leif Erikson (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
John Cunningham was born in Île-à-la-Crosse, Saskatchewan, on 16 February 1817, as the eldest son of Patrick Cunningham, a postmaster from Sligo, Ireland, who had become a voyageur at Hudson's Bay Company (HBC), and of Nancy Anne Bruce, a native of Luisianna. [1] He was only baptized on 27 August 1826, at the age of 9. [2]
He along with 20 other Frenchmen, 19 voyageurs including the Jesuit missionary priest Jean-Pierre Aulneau who accompanied them, were killed by the Sioux on Massacre Island in Lake of the Woods. [4] La Vérendrye restrained the local Cree from a war of revenge in order to protect the fur trade.
Louis-Antoine, Comte de Bougainville (12 November 1729 – 31 August 1811) was a French military officer, explorer and nobleman. A contemporary of the British explorer James Cook, he served in the Seven Years' War and the American Revolutionary War.
According to historian C. G. Coutant, Jacques La Ramée worked as a voyageur and fur trader for the North West Company and John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company. [5] [6] [7] Employees of the North West Company and its rival, the Hudson's Bay Company, were in competition, and disputes at times turned violent. In 1821 the two feuding companies ...
Dictionnaire illustré des explorateurs et grands voyageurs français du XIXe siècle. 4 vols, Éditions du Comité des Travaux historiques et scientifiques (Paris. ISBN 2-7355-0158-2, 2-7355-0233-3, 2-7355-0391-7, 2-7355-0461-1; Brosse, Jacques (1983). Great Voyages of Exploration. The Golden Age of Discovery in the Pacific. Transl. Stanley ...