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made it necessary ior him lo seek some profitable employnioiit. He ob-i tallied perllibaslon to open a tradlngi p05t on the St, Maurice River Iiéafl his native town which was then an‘ important centre of the fur trade and here lie spent several years gain- ing iuituable experience but not much’ wealth. 1n i726 he “'35 BiVED U19 {command uf the. frontier PO55 ‘of Lake Nlpigon. north of Lake Sik‘ ivrlor. on the verge of the distant ‘iinliiiolrii ivilticrness of the Wcﬁt. i La Vcrentirye. like so many others, Iriresimetl of finding a way overland t0 that Westcrti Sort which ho one had ‘seen and of which everyone spoke. At Nlplgon, ixliilc busy xvii-ii his duties as an Indian 'i‘l'iitle~r. he was ever on, the alert. for information about the regions beyond. The Indian told him as they told others. stories of .1 West- ‘waiwi flowing river of a salt lake. oii which sailed great‘ ships, of inch in armour who rode upon horses. One of ‘the India.ris drew a rough map of the u-oilte urhich he declares that. he had followed to where tlic waters cbbed .and flowed. 'I‘htiu,':li La Vrrclltirje ‘did not. bt-llcre all that. he was told, he was convinced that mliC-h of it was probable. He resolved tn tijv to find that vVestel-ii Sm himsCii. and so, Hiking with him (ii-harbin- mali- he ti-aitnlerl down to NIfllllFffWli lii i730 to poi-shade the (governor to help him to

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the earlier history of Sea of the West; the explorers to discovery _ it seemed to be only n. ‘ii-little farther beyond; always itixgcoded before hem. To seek it m*y‘_ men spent. ieir lives in toils ﬂ\’Q";pl'lV8.iil0n5; they ruined them- sei and some like Marquette and Ll ‘lie, perished in the search. They g, lied; but out of their failures 4

ii‘; the knowledge of the vast in- r of the Continent. Among, these ‘iflllccrit failures none was greater ithat of La Verendhve and his {which made known tho prairie ry and the Rocky Nfolintziiiis. '9 GIHULIPI‘ tie. Ira Verendrfve ‘ ‘w _at ThrecxRivers in i685. He ‘ was one of the family of ten children of the Governor of the. district, and ' irﬁtliatazc of almost, continual war- fafb. hi» sons of the selgncilrs had to cal-is 'tll1eii~ shale of the. lizhtlng at it itchy fearij: age. Pierre was only twelve yreafs“ old when he joined the colonial tmoilp-sijarid before he was twenty he 333M ‘main: the settlers of M§ialiL§l3htI§ and the English fisher- mttri of Newfoiindlniltl. In i707 he sailed from Canada to 101i] the French armjx fighting m Flanders against the great‘ Duke of Marlborough. In the bloody latitllw of Mzilplrtqilet he re- ceived pine aloiincis and was taken’ DTlSOIWY. iln time he was exchanged; but he nad no private fortune and no carry out. his IITOJCCT. influential friends a: rollrt. and witlt- 'f'lie iZOVFlTiOl‘ }}F‘8ilh.1i‘ll0i$ was nut these. promotion in the army was l inwrt-sterh hut the King would viva iniposilivle He. returned to Canarlti i neliher men. nor money. nor supplies. and soon retired from military lift‘. 'All their. La Verciidiﬁvc was able lo get Shortly lifter his rczllrii from the was the monopoly‘ oi tile \\'(’-'\'|Pl'll fur wars, he manied. Foil: sons were i trade. c-n t-oiirilt-lnn lllai at the same born to him. rind hi‘. RTOWIHQ family time hr‘ Pﬂfflfd m1 till‘ -‘P!‘~1'<‘ll i0!‘ U10

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out for the West. H15 youngest son,‘ who had been taught to make miiipsl and plans, now joined his (other in; tho family enterprise. ‘ From ttnw to time, La Verendrya had. hoard accounts of a. trim 0f 111- dians called the Mandalns, who were said to live on the blliks m: a swat‘ river lthat flowed. into the ocean. Ini the summer of 1738. with two of his

sons, he journeyed across the P1441115} southwest to their country- fie {Ollndl them living along the banks of thel Missouri River, in villages of houses! built of logs and earth. 'I'hcy receiv-

ed him cordially and gave him some‘ information, but he found that their‘. i-ivei- flowed South and not West; l-ie left two of his men with than‘.

to ieum their lansimlze and mini further information, and returned

way to sea. He “us; rfluivrd to build forts and to trade with the Indians, and out. of his profits he was exp“. ted to pay all the costs of his Qxpgd]- tions, 1t can easily be seen that, if he had to attend to the business of’ fur trading he would no: have much time for cxislorauon. He had little. money of his own: he needed men' and provisions, canoes and trading! goods‘ and. since the King would not ‘ assist. him. he ilvas compelled to ask 1191i! from till‘ merchants of Montreal. “They were not interested in his plans ifor exploration, but by promising them Ft large share of the profits of his ' trade, he persuaded them to advance the money and goods he needed, Early in June, 1731, all was ready. 1-11 VEPEHGYYB set out from Montreal, tﬂkllz with him his nephew, Lrﬂ Jemcriiye and three of his sons boys Inf eighteen. seventeen and sixteen jvears, who had grown up in their trading post home at Three Rivers. It was a family of explorers. and all shared tho enthusiasm and the am- bition of the elder man, Doubtlessfw the boys the expedition had all the “attraction of a great. adventure, and, lris their later history shows, - they hiust have been sturdy brave and lsclf-rcliaiit. '

The little fleet. of birch-bark can- 00s made its way by the usual route -.to the West. up the Ottawa and a1- ‘ong the north shorelof the upper lllikcs. Late iii August. they reached lthe westcm endof Lake Superior. ‘Here the party divided Jcmeray push- .ed on With liaif the men 11o build a fort at Rainy Lake, while

Ln vei-ciitlrye stayed for the wiiilei"

at itfaniinis-iiqilia. where Fort Wil- .iiam now stands. The next spring he

xix-lit on to the new forLGradually during the next few years a chliin of trading niacin was astablishecl from ‘Lake superior to Luke Winnipeg and beyond as far ns the Assinibolne Riv- er. iiern. at the. spot where 10-day mtancis Portage la Prairie, Fort Ln ‘ mono vtas built.

to! Fort La Reine, suffering ' severely from a violent illness, caused 9103-, ably by his years of hard work, pri-l vation and anxiety. Next your, his men returned with news that early in the Flu-mm“ 5 number of strange Indians had a1’- rived (0 mile in the Maiidln vill- iigeﬁrliey rode horses, and came from the west, where thﬁ)’ 531d the" were bearded white men ilvinz in stone houses on the shores of a lake whose waters rose and fell. These white incrl must have been 591m‘ liiirds of Mexico and California: it: was the old story that the Ind-lam told iiil explain“, and w" W” °“ truth, but none of them Gave any m“ n; um grant, distance that. had w be travelled vi rcM-h the Pacific Ocean, Meanwhile. be Verendrye‘ sought other rutes. One of his sons was sent to explore the country at. the northern end of‘ Lake Winnipeg. H4; went up the Saskatchewan as far as the forks, and built a post. at the place now known as The Pas, on the line of the Present Hudson Bay Railway. but lack of. means prevent- ed further progress in the direction. In April, 1142, two of 1a Veren- drye‘; sous with two other French- men, set foi-i-h again to try to reach the sea by way of the Mandan coun- try. Their fatlior stayed behind, for he was too ill in travel, and the business of fur trading must still go on. The sons reached the Manihn viiages and waited them for the ex~ pectecl visit of the Horse Indians.

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A large trade was opened up, for the Indians were glad to bring their fun to the near-by French forts in- stead of having to take them to the posts of Ehe Hudson's Bay Company fai- to the north. Heavy troubles fell upon La Verendrye in i736. Mls most experienced and reliable lieut- ciiaiit. his nephew, La Jemerayc, (ilPd, and in June‘ a party of his inch, with his eldest son and a Jes- uit priest. were all masacred by a band of Sioux Indians on an island lli the Lake. of the Woods. The bulk of the profits of the trade went topis the Bad Lands. Hm the earth the Montreal merchants, and to csr- . was streaked with brilliant. colon, ry nrl his explorations La Verendyciyellow, red green, crlmsOn and blue, iinulved himself deeply in debt. Thejnnd craved by wind and water into Killl complained that he was notdantasiic shapes. They found l. rloing enough exploration. His part- camp of a tribe which were called tiers CiﬂlllOYCd for more profits, and The Good Looking Indians, and from i-i-..~.i iizcrciianls spread stories about l them got new guides to the Horse 1n- liini to influence the government radians. When, at. last they reached trike away his monopoly. La Veren-lthose Indians. they admitted that rlrye liatl to go to Montreal and they had never been to the Western Quebec to protect. his interests, and sen, and said that. the wly than led it \\;L\' only with great difficulty that through the country of the fierce he was tibi¢ m get the m8fChllf1tS‘5l"llkQ Indiana, the terror of the riml the govttmnicnt. to continual‘ western plains. They told them of’ a thrli- Again. ilntfaunted hv neighboring tribe, the 730w Indians

As they did not come. the brothers started near the end of July, with two Mandsns to guide them to the Horas Indian country. They crossed the Missouri and travelled for twenty days through what were later known

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tack the Siukes. Over two thousand ivai-rm-s with their families were 38.116186!‘ and the prairie was cover- ed with hundreds of teePNS. and La vei-ondryels account itelis us that the Indians hm with them great num- bers of horses, asses and mules. This information ' of great inter- est, since it. shows how 1n norm the use of the horse had reached at this date. The Spaniards had brought the first horses to t-him continent, and from their settlements in Mex- ico mnd California. from time to time, horses escaped, or were pug- chased or stolen by the Indians They passed from tribe to tribe by Milt-lire or tirade until in 1742‘ as we have'seen, horses were used by the Indians almost u far as the Mia- ourl. The Possession of these Inl- mills made an entire change 1n the life ti" the Indians, and gave the tribes who used ithcm an enormous advantage in hunting, in travel and in warfare. Ethel-w. the buffalo, on which they depended for their food, clothing and shelter, had‘ t0 be hunt.» i ed by slow and careful tracking‘ or: by luring or driving them over high banks. Now they could be surround-I ‘ed, or ridden down by hunters ont lh- scback. Formerly n11 Journeys! ‘ were made on foot; the dog was their only beast of burden, and these, could carry only small loads. Nowl they could travel rapidly, and heavyl loads could be transported easily byl ‘means of the travels. ‘Pliis was an‘ Tingenipus arrnngmeerit of two‘ longl ipoles. which were tied together in at iv shape at the horse's shouldent ‘which supported the tips, While the; ends dragged 0n» the ground on eith- er side several feet behind the horse. t Cross-bars between the poles bore the t ipllcs of blggln‘ the writ mars, Tprwisions, old men and women, the,‘ islck and the children. The Indians fnever developed the out, and knelt {nothing of the use of wheels unll. they uw the white mm. with these moluited Bow Indians.‘ ‘the brothers journeyed in December; on tiiwwestwud wu- path against! itlic snlkes. Through it was winter it,

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