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Médard Chouart des Groselliers, Knight of the Garter
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Canada Plaque
Located in the District of Parry Sound, Township of the Archipelago, Ontario, is a plaque raised to commemoratePierre-Esprit Radisson.
Chouart is mentioned in the text.
Biography
Médard Chouart Des Groseilliers, a native of Champagne, was baptized on July 31, 1618 at Charly-sur-Marne. Except for having spent some time in Touraine, nothing is known of his life before his arrival in New France in 1641.
Taken into the service of the Jesuits as a servant, a donné or an interpreter, Des Groseillers travelled with them until 1646. He was the first Frenchman in New France to recognize the possibilities for fur trade around Hudson's Bay.
Despite being the person responsible for identifying the primary economic resource that could save the colony, history dismisses his as a mere adventurer trying to make money for himself.
After leaving the Jesuits, Des Groseilliers learns the Algonquin, Huron an