The Manitoba Historical Society published an article concerning the French regime in western Canada:
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"...some of the merchants who accompanied him [La Vérendrye] (included) Eustache Gamelin who was his attorney at the time of his wife's death and who built little Fort Vermillion with Rene Bourassa, and the merchant Joseph Cartier, who was killed in 1736." [Source]
