The death of Pere Aulneau, 1736: the development of myth in the Northwest.

Historical Studies | January 1, 2003| | Copyright

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This paper looks at narratives of the killing of a party of twenty-one Frenchmen on an island in Lake of the Woods on 6 June 1736. The victims included the Jesuit missionary Jean-Pierre Aulneau and Jean-Baptiste de la Verendrye, the eldest son of the explorer and trader Pierre Gaultier de la Verendrye. The sources examined include a report by the elder La Verendrye, the testimony of those who found the bodies of the victims, accounts written by the Jesuits of New France during the three years following the incident, and oral traditions passed on in ...

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