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FOOT-NOTES 



* Madelaine Hainault, married : first, Sébastian Hayet, of St. Malo ; their daugh- 

 ter, Marguerite, married Chouart ; second, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, of Paris, by whom 

 she had : Pierre-Esprit, Françoise, married to Volant, and Elizabeth, married to 

 Jutras. 



^ On the 7th June, 1661, at Three Rivers, Father Claude Jean Allouez, 

 christened Antoinette, daughter of " Medard Chouar and Marguerite Ayet." 

 It may be noted here that Marguerite is always designated under the name 

 of Ayet or Hayet in the records of the time, whilst Françoise and Elizabeth 

 are constantly called Radisson. Their mother had married twice. Marguerite 

 was the elder of the two other sisters and also of Pierre-Esprit Radisson. 



' The Outaouas, for five or six years were in the habit of buying the furs 

 from the Christinos at Lake Superior and selling them afterwards to the 

 French of Three Rivers and Quebec. 



^ An expedition composed of Fathers Dablon and Dreuillette, with eighty 

 Indian canoes left Tadoussac on the 1st and 2nd of June. 1661 " for the Kiris- 

 tinos," says the Journal des Jésuites. They were accompanied by Michel Le 

 Neuf de la Vallière, Denis Guyon, Guillaume Couture, François Pelletier, 

 Couillard Després, with instructions from d'Argenson " to reach the North 

 Sea." A few days later the Iroquois killed several persons at Tadoussac, 

 and one of their bands roving through the St. Maurice and the Upper Sague- 

 nay, struck a camp of Attikamegues and Frenchmen at Lake Necouba 

 destroying them to the last man. The Dablon party was then near Lake 

 Necouba, but they dared not push further, and returned to Tadoussac. 



* Jacques le Neuf de la Poterie was Governor of Three Rivers. His 

 son, Michel, born at that place, October 31st, 1640, had just come back from 

 France and he already bore the surname of la Vallière, by which historians 

 know him as Captain of Frontenac's guard and Governor of Acadia. 



' The law was that twenty- five percent of the furs brought to the market 

 belonged to the administration of the colony. Besides this duty, the Gover- 

 nor wanted to take half of the profits of the trip for the two men appointed 

 by him. This exaction did not meet with the approval of Chouart and 

 Radisson. 



° Now River St. Maurice, a name adopted sometime about the year 1720. 



' François Larivière was the third one. He lost himself in the woods at 

 Lake Two Mountains and was found starving by some Frenchmen hunting 

 in the neighborhood. The Governor of Three Rivers imprisoned him for 

 desertion, but the people of the place managed to obtain his discharge. 



* Rivière des Prairies. It is the arm of the Ottawa which passes between 

 Montreal and Jesus Island. In those days the whole of the River Ottawa was 

 called des Prairies. 



* The two branches of the Ottawa encircling the Island of Jesus afford 

 two entrances into the Ottawa which was then considered as the continuation 

 of the St. Lawrence or River of Canada. 



" Probably in Lake Two Mountains. 

 " Another name of the Ottawa. 

 " Lake Superior. 



" Foot of Long Sault where Dollard and his companions had perished 

 the year before. 



