La Prairie Voyageurs and the Fur Trade
Presentation for the French-Canadian Heritage Society of California
October 27, 2019
VI. — A FEW MORE INTERESTING VOYAGEUR RELATIVES
From the 1620s to 1800s a few traveled with explorers like Samuel de Champlain, Henri De Tonty, Pierre Gaultier de La Verendrye, Antoine de La Mothe Cadillac, Alexander Mackenzie, David Thompson, and Lewis and Clark as they explored and mapped the North American continent.
• 1626, Great-uncles Thomas Godefroy de Normanville and Jean Godefroy de Lintot came to New France with Samuel de Champlain.
• 1686, Great-Uncle Daniel Amiot Canoed to the Gulf of Mexico in search of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.
• 1696, Great-uncle Joseph Moreau wins lawsuit against Cadillac
• 1755, Charles Michel de Langlade, Fur Trader & Indian War Chief, led a group from the Three Fires confederacy in the defense of Fort Duquesne (later Pittsburgh), where the French and Indians triumphed over the British Edward Braddock and George Washington at the Battle of the Monongahela.
Charles married Charlotte Ambroise Bourassa (1st cousin 7x removed), uncle Rene Bourassa's daughter. Charles Michel de Langlade's mother was Domitilde (Ottawa). She was the Ottawa wife of (1st) Daniel Amiot Villeneuve [our 8th great grand uncle]; (2nd), of Augustin Mouet Langlade. She was also the sister of Nissowaquet (Ottawa) http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/nissowaquet_4E.html
• 1788, Cousin Charles Boyer Was a Nor'Wester who built Fort Vermilion
• 1792, Great-Uncle Charles Lagasse on the Columbia Plateau with David Thompson
• 1797, Great-uncle Joseph Vielle dit Cossé a NWCo Voyageur who Travelled with Alexander Mackenzie
• 1803, Cousin François Rivet traveled with Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (The Corps of Discovery), and later traveled with David Thompson, map maker of the NWCo., still later he was employed by the HBC. François died a US citizen at French Prairie, Oregon 1852, at age 96.
That’s all folks — Au revoir
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