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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.
Other writers are careful to say Vérendrye's sons without being specific. In his journal of the first expedition the elder Vérendrye four times speaks of 'my son the chevalier' without saying which one. [9] [s] The La Vérendrye brothers. Historical marker at Fort Pierre, South Dakota. All the tribal names are guesses.
A map of the area of operations of the La Vérendrye family. Fort Paskoya (or Paskoyac or Pasquia) was a French fort and trading post on the lower Saskatchewan River above Cedar Lake. It was named after a Cree word for 'narrows', or after the Opaskwayak Cree Nation, whom the explorers encountered. "Paskoyac" was also an old name for the ...
After the Peace of Utrecht ended the War of the Spanish Succession, French desire for domination of the American interior and reaching the Mandan villages on the Missouri River prompted Governor Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois to hire Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye to develop a string of trading posts into the interior and search for a water route to the Pacific.
The Verendrye Site is an historical archaeological site off Verendrye Drive in Fort Pierre, Stanley County, South Dakota, United States.Now a small public park, it is the place where the La Vérendrye brothers, the first known Europeans to explore this area, placed a lead plate bearing the crest of France, to claim the territory for their homeland, during their 1742-43 expedition to the Rocky ...
Petito lived with her family in Blue Point on Long Island, just outside New York City. By high school, she had a large circle of friends, one of whom was Laundrie. PHOTO: Gabby Petito's father Joe ...
Jean-Baptiste de La Vérendrye and his cousin, Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye. 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 Dandonneau Du Sablé. He was born on Île Dupas near Sorel, New France [1]
Brian's parents welcomed his sister Cassie about 10 years before having their son. Now, Cassie has a family of her own. She married her husband, James "Jimmy" Luycx, in December 2015, per her ...