Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye, Canadian commander and explorer (born 1685)

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye

18th-century French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer

Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye was a military officer, fur trader, and explorer. In the 1730s, he and his four sons explored the area west of Lake Superior and established trading posts there. They were part of a process that added Western Canada to the…