Étienne Lucier
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Étienne Lucier, né Lussier, was a French-Canadian fur trader active primarily in the Pacific Northwest. He was hired by John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company and sent to the region to help establish
Fur trader Etienne Lucier
Engraving of Fort Astoria, Oregon, around 1813
Fort Vancouver around 1845
Champoeg Meetings
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The Champoeg Meetings were the first attempts at formal governance by European-American and French Canadian pioneers in the Oregon Country on the Pacific Northwest coast of North America. Between 1841
Étienne Lucier
…Pacific Fur Company and sent to the region to help establish Fort Astoria. Later he became a settler in the Willamette Valley. Lucier attended the Champoeg Meetings and was one of few French-Canadians or "Canadiens" to vote for the Provisional Government of Oregon, an American and Canadian civil authority for the…
Oregon Institute building circa 1844 in present-day Salem
District boundaries drawn in 1843, showing modern U.S. state and international borders