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Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye
18th-century French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer
For other people named Gaultier, see Gaultier (disambiguation).
Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (17 November &#;– 5 December ) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader, and explorer.[1] In the s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and established trading posts there.
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They were part of a process that added Western Canada to the original New France territory that was centred 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 s, 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.[2]
Early life
Born in Trois-Rivières, New France, Pierre was the eldest son of René Gaultie