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MANNING AND LADING OF CANOES. 443
A Canoe.—Angus Brisebois
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Jean
Baptiste Larocque ;
Jean Baptiste Desmarais—20 packs, W. W. 2 ; 9 taureaux
3 kegs of grease ; 2 bags of potatoes ; 32 packages, and
McD.'s baggage ; 2 bales of meat ; i buffalo.
A Canoe.—Louis Desmarais ;
Joseph Plante ; Cyrile
Paradis ; Michel Damphousse— 10 packs, W. W. 2 ; 2 kegs
of grease ; 2 bags of potatoes ; 12 pieces, and my baggage
2 buffalo ; 4 bales of meat.
L. L. Canoe.—Charles Bottineau ;
Jervis [Gervais] ;
Assiniboines—22
kegs of grease ; i bag of potatoes ; 10 bags
of potatoes, Bas de la Riviere ; 32 pieces ; i buffalo.
S. Canoe.—Antoine Larocque ; Bonhomme Montour
10 kegs of grease ; i bag of potatoes ; i cow.
for the Mandans, Dec. loth,
1793.—One Bourie or Bourre went with Thompson
from Boggy Hall on the N. Saskatchewan into the Rocky mts. at Athabascan
headwaters in 18 10.
For Brisebois, see note *, p. 226.
For Desmarais, see note ^*, p. 51.
For Plante or Laplante, see note ®, p. 268.
Cyrile Paradis not noted elsewhere.—Cuthbert Paradis and Fran9ois Paradis
are both listed as voyageurs N. W. Co., Lake Winnipeg, 1804.
Damphousse : nothing like this name noted elsewhere ;
and its peculiar form
suggests error of the copy.
For Bottineau, see note *, p. 226.
Jervis, Jarvis, Jarves, etc. , are frequent corruptions of the obvious Gervais,
and various persons of this surname appear in the annals.—One Gervais of the
N. W. Co. wintered at Pine fort on the Assiniboine, 1793-94.—Alexis Gervais
is listed as voyageur N. W. Co., Upper Red r., 1804. — Jean Baptiste Gervais
is thrice listed in identical terms as voyageur N. W. Co., Upper Red r.,
1804 ; this record may be of one or more persons.—One Gervais was on the
Willamette r. in Oregon, about 1838.
Bonhomme Montour I have noted elsewhere, but the surname has a long
record in the fur-trade.—Nicolas Montour was a member of the old N. W. Co.
on the coalition of 1787 ; was at Finlay's old fort in 1789, and about 1792
retired to Pointe du Lac, Trois Rivieres.—Another Nicolas Montour was an
engage of the N. W. Co. in 1799, Fort Dauphin Dept., wages 180 livres, G.
P. currency.—Nicolas Montour, clerk N. W. Co., was at Fort des Prairies in
1804 ; he is the " Mr." Montour who reached the Rocky Mountain house with
Bercier and a Kootenay Indian, Oct. 31st, 1806, went on another mountain
trip, returned Feb, 3d, 1807, was placed in charge of a post by David Thompson
in 1811, and fought a duel with F. B. Pillet in 1813 : see note ", p. 671 ;
note '8, p. 757 ; note '*, p. 788.