La Vérendrye
Americannoun
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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
La Vérendrye represents the six villages as surrounded with ditches and stockades, flanked by a sort of bastion,—defences which, he says, had nothing savage in their construction.
From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Francis Parkman
All help was refused, but La Vérendrye was told that he might let out his forts to other traders, and so raise means to pursue the discovery.
From A Half-Century of Conflict - Volume II by Francis Parkman
From this line of posts the elder La Vérendrye turned his attention to the upper Missouri, leading an expedition southwestward to the Mantannes in 1738.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
La Vérendrye came to the Lake of the Woods.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
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