How to Pronounce Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
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Nov 17, 1685 Trois Rivières, Quebec, Canada Died on 05 Dec 1749 (aged 64)
French Canadian explorer and trader
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About Pierre Gaultier De Varennes Sieur De La Vérendrye
- 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 centered along the Saint Lawrence basin. He was the first known European to reach present-day North Dakota and the upper Missouri River in the United States.
- In the 1740s, two of his sons crossed the prairie as far as present-day Wyoming, United States and were the first Europeans to see the Rocky Mountains north of New Mexico.
