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Frederic Remington (1861-1909)
Radisson and Groseilliers, 1905
Oil on canvas, 43.8 x 76.2 cm
Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming
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ierre-Esprit Radisson and Médard Chouart des Groseilliers are
considered the first voyageurs. They spearheaded the mid-seventeenth-
century fur trade and inspired the founding of the Hudson's Bay
Company in 1670.
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he expansionist Governor of New France,
Louis de Buade de Frontenac,
en route to Cataraqui (Kingston) on Lake Ontario in 1674 where, over
the objections of officials, settlers, and fur traders, he
established a new trading post.
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John Henry de Rinzy (ca.1852-1936)
Frontenac en Route to Cataraqui
Watercolour
National Archives of Canada (C-13325)
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Mary Millicent Chaplin
North West Canoe on Lake Ontario, c. 1840
Watercolour, 18.9 x 30.7 cm
National Archives of Canada (C-873)
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Montreal Canoe with
Hudson's Bay Company officials making good time
on open water. As the economic historian Harold Innis noted, ". . .
canôts du maître were important items in the trunk line from Montreal
to Grand Portage . . . , "* using routes along main rivers and across
the Great Lakes.
* The Fur Trade in Canada (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 1970), p. 218.
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