, 323. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Frontenac_.

=Laverdiere, Charles Honore= (1826-1873). Educated at Laval University.
Studied for the church and ordained priest. Joined the faculty of Laval,
and became university librarian. =Ch= On question of Champlain's tomb,
261-262. =Bib.=: Edited the _Works_ and _Voyages_ of Champlain; and
completed Ferland's _Cours d'Histoire du Canada_; author of _Histoire du
Canada_; _Samuel de Champlain_; edited, with Abbe Casgrain, the _Journal
des Jesuites_, 1645-1668.

=La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de= (1685-1749). Son
of Rene Gaultier, Sieur de Varennes, governor of Three Rivers. Served in
the New England campaign of 1704, and the following year in
Newfoundland. In 1707 with the army in Flanders, and wounded at
Malplaquet in 1709. Returning to Canada, engaged in the fur trade, for
some years on the St. Maurice, and 1727-1728 on Lake Nipigon. There
conceived the idea of exploring the unknown country beyond Lake
Superior, to discover the Western Sea, a project to which he devoted the
remainder of his life. Left Montreal for the West in 1731; built forts
on Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods, and in the succeeding years
penetrated to Lake Winnipeg, Red River, and the Assiniboine. In 1738
made a journey to the Mandan villages on the Missouri; and the following
year one of his sons penetrated to the Saskatchewan. In 1742, unable to
go himself, sent two of his sons far to the south-west. They hoped, as
he had always hoped, to reach at last the Western Sea, but were baffled
by hostile tribes and the barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In 1743
returned finally to Montreal, broken in health and heavily in debt. Six
years later died there. His sons begged to be allowed to continue his
western explorations, but hostile influences made this impossible. =WM=
Discoverer of the Rocky Mountains, 19. =L= Carries explorations as far
as the Rocky Mountains, 11. =MS= Leads the way inland from Lake
Superior, 3; his search for Western Sea, 40; his reply to charge of
making money in fur trade, 281. =Bib.=: Prud'homme, _Pierre Gaultier de
Varennes, Sieur de La Verendrye_ (R. S. C., 1905); Laut, _Pathfinders of
the West_; Parkman, _Half Century of Conflict_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay
Company_; Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_. _See also_ his journals
in _Canadian Archives Report_, 1889; Richard's _Summary_ (Can. Arch.,
1904); and Margry, _Decouvertes et Etablissements des Francais_. His
_Journals_ are now bei