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Radisson the Trailblazer who Shaped Hudson Bay Life
Pierre Esprit Radisson, born in 1635 or 1636 at St. Malo, early captured and adopted by Iroquois, then forged west into the fur trade. He founded a Hudson Bay trade post, helped spark the Hudsons Bay Company, and endured political betrayals before ending his days in obscurity.
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Sieur de la Salle
United States
North America
Pierre Esprit Radisson
la Salle
American
Radisson
St. Malo
France
Canada
Three Rivers
St. Lawrence
New France
Hudson
New York
Europe
Quebec
Medard Chouart Grosseillers
West
Wisconsin
Mississippi
Upper
Missouri
Hudson’s Bay
Hendrick Hudson
Duluth
Northwest
Qibec
Ben
Therh
Boston
Grosseillers
England
London
Prince Rupert
Bohemia
Charles
Rupert
Cromwell
Rupert Radisson
Eaglet
Grossfellers
Nonsuch
Thames
Gentlemen Adventurers of
Bayly
Louis XIV
Hudson’s Bay Country
Louis
la Barre
Fur Company
Adventurers
Cheely-Raban Syndicate