Talk:Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye

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he was peaceful  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.56.176.152 (talk • contribs)
 * It's my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sommbitch or another. Vérendrye still has several notable accomplishments meriting an article. -- AlexWCovington  (talk) 20:50, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Sighting of "the Shining Mountains"
It is part of Canadian elementary school national history/lore curriculum about "the great explorers who laid the foundations for what is now Canada" etc., drilled into us and often part of final exams in Grades 6 or 7, or used to be....) that La Verendrye and his sons sighted the Canadian Rockies on one of his westward journeys, I think maybe the last one but maybe next-to-last, such that he never got a chance to see them before he died. Noting the trip to the Bighorns, which are part of the American Rockies, I'm pretty certain it must have been a Saskatchewan River-oriented trip, though I can't say where the sighting was from, I have the impression it was the Bow River area, or southern Alberta anyway.  It's often put Pere de la Verendrye also, in his capacity as father in the family eense rather than, obviously, the clerical.  They were with him on at least that trip, as I recall the story ,and their names are known should be included in the adventure;fort foundation stories; in the French fur trade, as in the NWC and PAC and HBC and RAC, family networks were a part of operations and most of these guys, even high-ranking ones, took their sons with them, and their offspring were an important part of overall French fur trade history; side-tangent worth noting for an article on New France's fur trade and/or companies, same as with HBC, NWC et al. hmmm; I note the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online is already cited and apparenely has nothing in it; I'll see what I can find of curriculum materials and try and come up with a cite about teh sighting of the Rockies; he wasn't hte first, although I think he may have been the first to do so from a location within what is now Canada. I think the French name is Montaignes Glisseuses - "shining like ice" is the sense of glisseuses I think, or gilssandes; maybe rendered Snowy Mountains in some translations, I'm not sure but that rings a bell}}. And I'll see what I can come up with further resources for a Fur trade of New France article, if it doesn't already exist under that name or another.Skookum1 (talk) 20:45, 1 May 2009 (UTC)