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13 famous people found

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  Jean-Baptiste GAULTIER DE LA VERENDRYE

  French explorer, founder of Fort St. Charles on Lake of the Woods and of Fort Maurepas on the Red River

  1713 - 1736
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  Louis JOLLIET

  French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America

  1645 - 1700
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  John MOLSON

  English-speaking Quebecer who was a major brewer and entrepreneur in Canada, starting the Molson Brewing Company

  1763 - 1836
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  Pierre GAULTIER DE VARENNES

  French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer

  1685 - 1749
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  Michel CHARTIER DE LOTBINIERE

  Quebec soldier

  1723 - 1798
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  Philippe Joseph AUBERT DE GASPé

  French Canadian writer and seigneur

  1786 - 1871
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  James Murray Yale

  Clerk, and later, a Chief trader for the Hudson's Bay Company, during the late North American fur trade

  1798 - 1871
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  John Frothingham

  Canadian merchant

  1788 - 1870
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  Marie Madeleine DE LA PELTRIE

  French woman who started the Order of Ursulines of Quebec

  1603 - 1671
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  Charles-François BAILLY DE MESSEIN

  Priest active in the British province of Quebec during the American Revolutionary War

  1740 - 1794
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  Marguerite D'YOUVILLE

  French Canadian widow who founded the religious order the Order of Sisters of Charity of Montreal

  1701 - 1771
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  Norbert PROVENCHER

  Canadian clergyman and missionary and one of the founders of the modern province of Manitoba

  1787 - 1853
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  Solomon JUNEAU

  Canadian fur trader, land speculator and politician who helped found the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  1793 - 1856