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    (Montreal). In response, he amassed a small force of seventeen Frenchmen, four Algonquins, and about forty Hurons. They fought to the death and saved Ville-Marie...
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    résultats", in La Minerve, June 24, 1834 Nadeau, Claude. "Histoire de la fête nationale des Québécois: la Saint-Jean Baptiste". Archived from the original...
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    widely known and very few copies are in circulation. In Histoire des découvertes et conquestes des Portugais dans le Nouveau Monde, Lafitau wrote two volumes...
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    eleven Indigenous peoples: the Inuit and ten First Nations – the Abenakis, Algonquins (or Anichinabés), Atikamekw, Cree, Huron-Wyandot, Maliseet, Miꞌkmaqs,...
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    years until he returned to the Lac des Deux-Montagnes about 1885. Due to his missionary work he was named by the Algonquins (Nipissings) Nìj-Kwenàtc-anìbìc...
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    more recently discovered that the author was probably Nicolas. The Histoire Naturelle des Indes Occidentales, a document held at the Bibliothèque nationale...
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    travel workers of those endeavors were called voyageurs. The French and Algonquins first encountered one another in 1603 after Samuel de Champlain established...
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  • present site of Ogdensburg in the State of New York and, finally, the Algonquins in Abitibi and Témiscamingue. François Dollier de Casson and Brehan de...
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    been the main reason. At the time of Samuel de Champlain's arrival, both Algonquins and Mohawks hunted in the Saint Lawrence Valley and conducted raids, but...
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    the language of the First Nations, Nicolet was sent to live with the Algonquins on Allumette Island, a friendly settlement located along the important...
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