Pierre Gaultier De La Vérendrye Script
I think that Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye shouldn’t be inducted into the Canadian Explorer Hall of Fame because he didn’t do that much to help make Canada. He was born on November 17, 1685, Trois-Rivières and died on December 5, 1749, Montreal. He was a soldier and then became a farmer for sixteen years. In 1731 — at the age of 43, which was old in those days — he decided to become an explorer. He explored Canada and was part of the fur trade.
He had promised to discover the Western Sea but he only gone forward to Lake Winnipeg. The expectations for a major discovery were so high that Maurepas lost patience, blaming La Vérendrye for diverting energies from exploration to trading, and suggested to Governor …show more content…
The history of French-regime Canada has been a story about white men, with women, Aboriginal peoples, and blacks told in a secondary role. He served in the French army and married a Anishinaabe wife according to oral tradition, and owned at least three slaves. Slavery is not said to have happened in New Canada, but it did with two-thirds of them being Aboriginal.
Vérendrye said that his sons were “obedient children” and he says that he wishes “to give them intellect”., which points to him thinking because they were partly Aboriginal, that they were dumb. He informs Beauharnois “I made the same recital to them that I had made to all the others. There was great thankfulness, with many tears and ceremonies, by passing their hands over my head, taking me in your room and place as their father, and our Frenchmen as brothers.”
He married two women! One was the Anishinaabe wife and one was Marie-Anne du Sablé. The women were viewed as weak and they had to be controlled by the
I think that Pierre Gaultier de la Vérendrye shouldn’t be inducted into the Canadian Explorer Hall of Fame because he didn’t do that much to help make Canada. He was born on November 17, 1685, Trois-Rivières and died on December 5, 1749, Montreal. He was a soldier and then became a farmer for sixteen years. In 1731 — at the age of 43, which was old in those days — he decided to become an explorer. He explored Canada and was part of the fur trade.
He had promised to discover the Western Sea but he only gone forward to Lake Winnipeg. The expectations for a major discovery were so high that Maurepas lost patience, blaming La Vérendrye for diverting energies from exploration to trading, and suggested to Governor …show more content…
The history of French-regime Canada has been a story about white men, with women, Aboriginal peoples, and blacks told in a secondary role. He served in the French army and married a Anishinaabe wife according to oral tradition, and owned at least three slaves. Slavery is not said to have happened in New Canada, but it did with two-thirds of them being Aboriginal.
Vérendrye said that his sons were “obedient children” and he says that he wishes “to give them intellect”., which points to him thinking because they were partly Aboriginal, that they were dumb. He informs Beauharnois “I made the same recital to them that I had made to all the others. There was great thankfulness, with many tears and ceremonies, by passing their hands over my head, taking me in your room and place as their father, and our Frenchmen as brothers.”
He married two women! One was the Anishinaabe wife and one was Marie-Anne du Sablé. The women were viewed as weak and they had to be controlled by the