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three of them being Iroquois experts from Caughnawaga, 

 Quebec. These three were brothers, named Pierre, Louis and 

 Michel French. Pierre was a veteran canoeman, being as 

 much at home in a boiling rapid as on the calmest water. 

 For some years he had acted as ferryman at Caughnawaga, 

 and only recently had made a reputation for himself by 



Pierre. Flett. Corrigal. Michel. Louis. 



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running the Lachine Kapids on Christmas day, out of sheer 

 bravado. His brother Louis had won some distinction also 

 through having accompanied Lord Wolseley as a voyageur on 

 his Egyptian campaigns; while Michel, the youngest and 

 smallest of the three, was known to be a good steady fellow, 

 boasting of the same distinction as his brother Louis. 



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