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	La VÃ©rendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de
		The expeditions organized by La Vérendrye and spearheaded by his sons were the first to open the country from Lk Superior to the lower Saskatchewan R and the Missouri R to the French fur trade.
		After succeeding his brother as commandant in 1728, La Vérendrye began to revive the old dream of discovering a route to the hypothetical "western sea," believed by some geographers to be a large gulf in the western interior that opened to the Pacific.
		Accordingly, La Vérendrye struck SW in 1738 to the Mandan country on the Missouri R. It was the only journey of exploration in which he had not been preceded by one of his sons or his nephew Christophe Dufrost de La Jemerais.
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	La VÃ©rendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de
		Les expéditions organisées par La Vérendrye et menées par ses fils sont celles qui ont ouvert à la traite française des fourrures la région du lac Supérieur jusqu'à la basse Saskatchewan et à la rivière Missouri.
		La Vérendrye choisit dès son jeune âge la carrière militaire.
		Las de cette vie, il décide de rejoindre son frère Jacques-René lorsque celui-ci devient commandant des postes sur la rive Nord du lac Supérieur en 1726.
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	Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
		He then returned to Fort La Reine on the Assiniboine, and it is said that he discovered Lake Manitoba in 1739.
		The most-discussed voyage undertaken by the Vérendryes was that of 1742–43, which was accomplished by two of the sons, probably Louis Joseph (who is generally agreed to have been the son known as the Chevalier) and François.
	www.bartleby.com /65/ve/Verendry.html (614 words)

	La Vérendrye History
		La Vérendrye questioned the First Nation traders who came to the post du Nord and he was convinced that the route to the sea was west through the border lakes not the Mississippi.
		While La Jemerais was travelling to Montreal in 1733, Jean-Baptiste, Pierre the younger and his men constructed a fort, which became known as Fort Barrière at the mouth of the Rivière Pichikoka (Whiteshell River) and Rivière Ouinipigon (later referred to as Maurepas or Winnipeg River).
		La Vérendrye did discover the Mandans were of mixed race as men and women were light skinned and often had blonde hair but he did not know who the “men of iron” (Spaniards) were.
	laverendryetrail.mb.ca /history.html (6663 words)

	The La Vérendryes - Exploring Westward - 18th Century - Pathfinders and Passageways
		La Vérendrye proposed to Governor Beauharnois and to Hocquart, the district administrator, that he go in search of this sea to set up trading posts and to encourage the Cree to bring their furs to the French rather that to Hudson's Bay posts.
		La Vérendrye's explorations pushed the limits of New France to the Saskatchewan River in the north and to the borders of South Dakota and Wyoming.
		La Vérendrye's explorations also led the Hudson's Bay Company to send explorers to the country's interior because the profitability of its trading posts were threatened by those that the La Vérendryes and their successors had set up.
	www.collectionscanada.ca /explorers/h24-1530-e.html (1301 words)

	La VÃ©rendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		La Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de, military officer, farmer, fur trader, explorer (b at Trois-Rivières 17 Nov 1685; d at Montréal 5 Dec 1749).
		The expeditions organized by La Vérendrye and spearheaded by his sons were the first to open the country from Lk Superior to the lower Saskatchewan R and the Missouri R to the French fur trade.
		Accordingly, La Vérendrye struck SW in 1738 to the Mandan country on the Missouri R. It was the only journey of exploration in which he had not been preceded by one of his sons or his nephew Christophe Dufrost de La Jemerais.
	www.canadianencyclopedia.ca /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0004412 (497 words)

	AllRefer.com - VErendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		VErendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la[pyer gOtyA´ du vAren´ syOr du lA vArANdrE´] Pronunciation Key, 1685–1749, explorer in W Canada and the United States, b.
		In 1727–28 VErendrye was a prominent figure in the extension of New France on its far frontiers and in the search for an overland Northwest Passage to the Western Sea, serving as commander of the trading posts on Lake Nipigon.
		The most-discussed voyage undertaken by the VErendryes was that of 1742–43, which was accomplished by two of the sons, probably Louis Joseph (who is generally agreed to have been the son known as the Chevalier) and FranCois.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/V/Verendry.html (698 words)

	Manitoba Pageant: La Verendrye and Manitoba's First Mine
		In 1735 La Verendrye's nephew and lieutenant, Christophe Dufrost de la Jemmeraye, produced what Champagne calls: "The first and most perfect of the French maps of the West." [4] The final cartography was probably done by Gaspar Chaussegros de Lery in October 1733.
		La Verendrye's Map of the West, dated 1737, which accompanied a letter from Governor Beauharnois to Comte de Maurepas, Minister of Marine and of the Colonies, shows in addition to Ile aux Biches, an unnamed island at the narrows of the lake.
		La Verendrye's 1740 map (made the year after Louis-Joseph's expedition on Lake Winnipeg) plots an Ile au Fer at the narrows of the lake.
	www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/pageant/16/firstmine.shtml (1671 words)

	La Vérendrye and Sons (1727-1743) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		La Vérendrye first went to Lake Winnipeg; then, basing himself on the reports of Indians of North America who described to him a hamlet on the banks of the "Western River", he concentrated his search efforts in a southwesterly direction.
		La Vérendrye resumed his explorations on the Canadian plains and realized that the Saskatchewan River could be a route for an expedition to the Western Sea.
		In hindsight, and on the continental scale, the contribution of La Vérendrye and his sons to the discovery of North America may appear modest, but at the time nobody suspected the immense distance separating Lake Superior from the Pacific Ocean.
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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		La Vérendrye was taken into the partnership to act as second in command and became commander-in-chief in 1728 when his brother left the post to participate in the war against the Foxes.
		La Vérendrye’s chain of posts being located on the land of the Assiniboins and Crees, he had to side with these Indians in their quarrel; but he could not afford Champlain’s recklessness, for the Sioux and Ojibwas, unlike the Iroquois, were French allies.
		La Vérendrye is therein depicted as a man who was motivated by selfish interests and who, because of lack of education and natural aptitudes, was unsuited for the career of discoverer.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35488 (6559 words)

	Great Canadian Explorers: La Vérendrye
		The La Vérendryes, father and three sons and a nephew (La Jemeraye), came from a prominent Québec family.
		The father, born in Québec 1685 (he died in Montreal in 1749), is important in Canadian discovery as he was one of the first North American born explorers to search out the details of his native continent.
		The La Vérendryes extended trade and discoveries to Lakes Winnipeg, Manitoba and Winnipegosis; searched for the much advertised Mer de l'Ouest, or Western Sea; and from 1731 to 1743 traded through much of this northwest based around the Red and Assiniboine Rivers.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/english/about/multimedia/explorers/la_verendrye.html (277 words)

	Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Verendrye
		Beauharnois determined to send Verendrye the next summer to Lake Winnipeg to build a post; in 1731 Verendrye journeyed with his party to the western end of Lake Superior and went on to Rainy Lake where Fort St. Pierre was built, the first of eight posts he constructed in the northwest.
		Verendrye resigned his position as commandant of the northwest in 1743, realizing that support for him was wanting in Paris, although he won a comfortable retirement and maintained his economic interests in the west.
		Verendrye was one of the great figures of the frontier of New France, although not sufficiently appreciated by the officials of his own day, a fate not rare among enterprising Frenchmen of the time.
	www.3rd1000.com /history3/biography/pverendrye.htm (789 words)

	Sieur de la Verendrye Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, later Sieur de La Verendrye, was born in Trois-Rivières, New France, on Nov. 17, 1685, the fourth son of the governor of that town.
		In 1707 La Verendrye sailed to France and obtained a commission as lieutenant in the Regiment of Bretagne.
		La Verendrye next turned his attention to the northwest and discovered the Saskatchewan River but lacked the resources to follow it to the Rocky Mountains.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/sieur-de-la-verendrye (709 words)

	François, chevalier de La Vérendrye - Quebec History
		(1715-1794), explorer, was born at Sorel, Canada, on December 22, 1715, the third son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Vérendrye.
		As early as 1738 he enjoyed the use of the title "Chevalier", possibly as a chevalier banneret; and after he inherited from his brother in 1762 the seigniory of Tremblay, he became known as the Sieur du Tremblay.
		He was unmarried, and with him the name of La Vérendrye became extinct.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/FrancoischevalierdeLaVerendrye-QuebecHistory.htm (226 words)

	La VErendrye Pierre Gaultier De Varennes Sieur De: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
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		La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de
		VERENDRYE, PIERRE GAULTIER DE VARENNES, SIEUR DE LA pyer gotya...syor d la varaNdre...father was the sieur de Varennes, for a time...Rivieres.
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	Louis Joseph de La Vérendrye - Quebec History
		La Vérendrye, Louis Joseph de (1717-1761), explorer, was born at Sorel, Canada, on November 9, 1717, the fourth son of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Vérendrye.
		He joined his father in the West about 1736, accompanied him on the trip to the Mandans in 1738, and was with his brother, the Chevalier de La Vérendrye on the expedition to the Rocky mountains in 1742-3.
		In 1758 he married, at La Prairie, Louise Antoine de Lépervanche; but he appears to have left no issue.
	www2.marianopolis.edu /quebechistory/encyclopedia/LouisJosephdeLaVerendrye-QuebecHistory.htm (189 words)

	Louis Joseph Gaultier de la Verendrye
		Verendrye left the camp April 2, on the 9th encountered a village of Prairie Sioux and reached the Mandans once more May 18.
		For political reasons the Verendryes were removed from positions of responsibility in the far west and in 1752 Louis Joseph reentered the fur trade.
		Anne H. Blegen, trans., "Journal of the Voyage Made by Chevalier de la Verendrye with One of His Brothers in Search of the Western Sea, Addressed to the Marquis de Beauharnois," The Verendrye Overland Quest of the Pacific.
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	The Virtual Museum of New-France: La Vérendrye
		Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye was born in Trois-Rivières on November 17, 1685.
		In May 1734, while La Vérendrye was en route to Montreal, he had some men march to Lake Winnipeg where they commenced construction of Fort Maurepas, named after the minister of the colonies.
		Given what was expected of him, the fact that La Vérendrye had dispatched large quantities of furs to the colony did not weigh heavily in his favour.
	www.civilization.ca /vmnf/explor/laver_e2.html (1141 words)

	FORT SAINT CHARLES
		La Verendrye then sent his oldest son Jean-Baptiste and his nephew La Memmeraye with a few men to travel the boundary waters to Rainy Lake and there build a trading post for fur trading with the Indians.
		La Jemmeraye on an inspection trip to fort Maurepas and fort Aux Rosseaux during the winter became ill, died and was buried on the banks of the Red River in May of 1736.
		Late in 1743 La Verendrye was forced to return to Montreal to face charges of envious men who accused him of enriching himself from fur trade and by his outfitters to whom he owed 40,000 livres after sacrificing all his own property.
	www.entreeltd.com /fortStCharles.htm (8152 words)

	Explorers of Canada, Part XX: Pierre de La Verendrye
		Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Vérendrye was born 17 November 1685 in Trois Rivières, the son of Lieutenant René Gaultier de Varenne, who came to Canada from France in 1665, and Marie-Ursule Boucher, the daughter of the governor of Trois Rivières.
		La Vérandrye was convinced that the route to the Pacific was through the west, not by the Mississippi.
		La Vérendrye's sons, Louis-Joseph and François, headed west and reached the Rockies, becoming the first explorers to see the mountain range.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/life_in_canada/89299 (533 words)

	Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		And that is enough to justify this rehearsal of the penetration of the continental interior, a development in Canadian history that surely should have given Northrop Frye pause in his creation of the figure of explorers as so many Jonahs being swallowed into the Gulf of Saint Lawrence as by Leviathan.
		Yet, the idea of a western sea’s proximity still enthralled the Orient-focused court of Louis XV until he lost New France to the British at the Fall of Québec in 1759 and, in 1763, resigned all North American claims except New Orleans, and St Pierre and Miquelon.
		This edition of correspondence about New France’s part in the western expansion of the fur trade confirms for a new generation of readers that La Vérendrye was too preoccupied with his ultimately unsuccessful effort at peace-making to make a profitable return on his and others’ investments.
	www.canlit.ca /reviews/174/5805_MacLaren.html (1034 words)

	Les grands explorateurs du canada: La Vérendrye
		Les La Vérendrye, le père et ses trois fils ainsi qu'un neveu, La Jemeraye, appartenaient à une famille québécoise très en vue.
		Les La Vérendrye ont poussé les frontières commerciales de leur époque jusqu'aux lacs Winnipeg, Manitoba et Winnipegosis; ils ont cherché à découvrir la «Mer de l'Ouest» dont l'existence était déjà connue; et de 1731 à; 1743, ils firent le commerce dans la région des rivières Rouge et Assiniboine.
		L'ouvrage contient la chronologie de la famille La Vérendrye, des reproductions de toutes les signatures de la famille et de ses associés, divers documents familiaux et d'excellents croquis de quelques-uns des postes de traite.
	www.mta.ca /faculty/arts/canadian_studies/francais/realites/multimedia/explorateurs/la_verendrye.html (275 words)

	Ron Lemieux - NDP MLA, La Verendrye - Online Desk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		La Verendrye is a wonderfully diverse region that stretches from the Red River east to the Ontario border encompassing the Rural Municipalities of Tache, Ritchot, Ste.
		La Verendrye also includes the growing communities of Landmark, Ile des Chenes, St. Adolphe, Richer and Giroux.
		It is always a pleasure to travel through the communities of La Verendrye, to meet, and to hear from my constituents.
	www.ndpcaucus.mb.ca /mlas/la_verendrye (352 words)

	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		He was relieved of this command by his cousin, Christophe Dufrost* de La Jemerais, towards the end of the summer and was ordered to build Fort Maurepas on the Red River.
		Pierre went to Fort La Reine (Portage-la-Prairie, Man.), on the Assiniboine River, and there he was forced to stay until the spring of 1741.
		Pierre was already at Fort La Reine when his father, returning from the east, reached it in October 1741.
	www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=35486 (911 words)

	VÃ©rendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		VÉRENDRYE, PIERRE GAULTIER DE VARENNES, SIEUR DE LA [Vérendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de la], 1685-1749, explorer in W Canada and the United States, b.
		The most-discussed voyage undertaken by the Vérendryes was that of 1742-43, which was accomplished by two of the sons, probably Louis Joseph (who is generally agreed to have been the son known as the Chevalier) and François.
		Bibliography: The Journals and Letters of Pierre Gaultier de Varennes de la Vérendrye and His Sons were edited by L. Burpee for the Champlain Society (1927).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-verendry.html (613 words)

	The Atlas of Canada - The Western Interior 1731 to 1757
		Exploration in the period 1731 to 1757 was dominated by the rapid thrust of French exploration into the western interior of Canada, particularly by Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye and his five sons who made nine expeditions between 1731 to 1743.
		La Vérendrye died in 1751, and the Saskatchewan was not fully explored until that same year by De Niverville.
		While La Vérendrye was actively exploring the western interior and two French major military expeditions were charting the Ohio River, the Hudson's Bay Company was embroiled in a controversy about its lack of exploration.
	atlas.gc.ca /sitefrancais/english/maps/historical/exploration/exploration1651_1760/we/1 (851 words)

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