Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière
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Chambly, Quebec
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– 7 September 1855) was a French Canadian
French Canadian
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trapper employed in the fur trade
Fur trade
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by the Hudson's Bay Company
Hudson's Bay Company
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in Rupert's Land
Rupert's Land
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Lagimodière is noted both as the Grandfather of Métis
Métis people (Canada)
The Métis are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a distinct aboriginal group, with...
leader Louis Riel
Louis Riel
Louis David Riel was a Canadian politician, a founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation Prime Minister, Sir John A....
, and as the husband of Marie-Anne Gaboury
Marie-Anne Gaboury
Marie-Anne Lagimodière was a French-Canadian woman noted as both the grandmother of Louis Riel, and as the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in what is now Western Canada....
, the first woman of European
European ethnic groups
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descent to travel to and settle in the Canadian west
Western Canada
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. The Lagimodières were also, in 1812, the first settlers at the Red River Colony
Red River Colony
The Red River Colony was a colonization project set up by Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk in 1811 on of land granted to him by the Hudson's Bay Company under what is referred to as the Selkirk Concession. The colony along the Red River of the North was never very successful...
near modern Winnipeg, Manitoba
Manitoba
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