Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
(1685-1749)
18th-century French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer
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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. In the 1730s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and established trading posts there. They were part of a process that added Western Canada to the original New France territory that was centred along the Saint Lawrence basin.
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17 November 1685 Trois-Rivieres, Canada
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5 December 1749 (aged 64) Montreal, Canada
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| Zodiac | Scorpio |
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