La Vérendrye

American  

[la vey-rahn-dree] / la veɪ rɑ̃ˈdri /

noun

1. Pierre Gaultier de Varenne Sieur de, 1685–1749, Canadian explorer of North America.

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Example Sentences

A trader named Pierre La Vérendrye had built the fort with his sons, before going on to explore and claim the western half of Canada for New France.

From The Guardian • May 27, 2020

On hearing this story, La Vérendrye sent his eldest son, Pierre, to pursue the discovery with two men, ordering him to hire guides among the Mandans and make his way to the Western Sea.

From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Parkman, Francis

Nor was this all; for in the morning La Vérendrye missed his interpreter, and was told that he had fallen in love with an Assinniboin girl and gone off in pursuit of her.

From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Parkman, Francis

"We continued our march," says La Vérendrye, "sometimes south-southwest, and now and then northwest; our numbers constantly increasing by villages of different tribes which joined us."

From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Parkman, Francis

The elder La Vérendrye, not long before his death, had sent a large quantity of goods to his trading-forts.

From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Parkman, Francis