Marie-Anne : the extraordinary life of Louis Riel's grandmother

Siggins, Maggie, 1942- author.

Book 2008

In 1807 Marie-Anne Lagomodière became the first white woman to make the canoe voyage from Quebec to the Red River Valley in western Canada as she accompanied her coureur du bois husband. She settled into the life and learned Cree and Ojibwe. She would be grandmother to Louis Riel.

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Frontier and pioneer life Prairie Provinces

Fur trade Canada, Western History 19th century

Lagimodière, Marie-Anne, 1780-1875

Northwest, Canadian History To 1870

Women pioneers Canada, Western Biography