Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit was a French explorer who built and founded Tadoussac, in present-day Quebec, the oldest and strongest surviving French settlement in the Americas.
Poste de traite, Tadoussac.
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The Algonquin people are an Indigenous people who now live in Eastern Canada and parts of the United States. They speak the Algonquin language, which is part of the Algonquian language family. Cultura
Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit
…to be visited by a revenge of equal horror and driven far into the interior. Tadoussac was to suffer; and as allies of the Montagnais, and soon of the Algonquins and Hurons too, all enemies of the Iroquois, the French and their fur trade were distressed for many years. The area was ill fitted for settlement…
Algonquin couple, 18th-century watercolor. The first Algonquian encountered by the French were the Kitcisìpiriniwak ("Ottawa River Men"; singular: Kitcisìpirini), whose village was located on an island in the Ottawa River; the French called this group La Nation de l'Isle.
Rackets (snowshoes) used by Algonquin tribes for elk hunting