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=La Verendrye, Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de= (1685-1749). Son of Rene Gaultier, Sieur de Varennes, governor of Three Rivers. Served in the New England campaign of 1704, and the following year in Newfoundland. In 1707 with the army in Flanders, and wounded at Malplaquet in 1709. Returning to Canada, engaged in the fur trade, for some years on the St. Maurice, and 1727-1728 on Lake Nipigon. There conceived the idea of exploring the unknown country beyond Lake Superior, to discover the Western Sea, a project to which he devoted the remainder of his life. Left Montreal for the West in 1731; built forts on Rainy Lake and Lake of the Woods, and in the succeeding years penetrated to Lake Winnipeg, Red River, and the a.s.siniboine. In 1738 made a journey to the Mandan villages on the Missouri; and the following year one of his sons penetrated to the Saskatchewan. In 1742, unable to go himself, sent two of his sons far to the south-west. They hoped, as he had always hoped, to reach at last the Western Sea, but were baffled by hostile tribes and the barrier of the Rocky Mountains. In 1743 returned finally to Montreal, broken in health and heavily in debt. Six years later died there. His sons begged to be allowed to continue his western explorations, but hostile influences made this impossible. =WM= Discoverer of the Rocky Mountains, 19. =L= Carries explorations as far as the Rocky Mountains, 11. =MS= Leads the way inland from Lake Superior, 3; his search for Western Sea, 40; his reply to charge of making money in fur trade, 281. =Bib.=: Prud'homme, _Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, Sieur de La Verendrye_ (R. S. C., 1905); Laut, _Pathfinders of the West_; Parkman, _Half Century of Conflict_; Bryce, _Hudson's Bay Company_; Burpee, _Search for the Western Sea_. _See also_ his journals in _Canadian Archives Report_, 1889; Richard's _Summary_ (Can. Arch., 1904); and Margry, _Decouvertes et etabliss.e.m.e.nts des Francais_. His _Journals_ are now being edited for the Champlain Society, Toronto.

=La Vigne, Captain de.= =Ch= Sails for France with Champlain, 141.

=Laviolette.= =Hd= Three Rivers founded by, in 1634, 43-44.

=Law.= =Dr= Confusion and abuse in administration of, 51-55.

=Law, Captain John.= =S= First sergeant at arms of the Upper Canada a.s.sembly, 85; a retired officer of the Queen's Rangers, 85.

=Law, John.= =R= Headmaster of Gore district Grammar School, Upper Canada, 4; Egerton Ryerson studies under, 5.

=Lawrence, Charles.= Entered the army as ensign, 1727; captain, 1742; and major, 1747. Accompanied Warburton's Infantry to Nova Scotia, and engaged in the French wars at Cobequid, 1749-1750; brigadier-general under Amherst at the siege of Louisbourg, 1758. Nine years earlier had been appointed a member of the Council of Nova Scotia; administered the government on the retirement of Governor Hopson, 1753; lieutenant-governor, 1754; and governor, 1756. The first a.s.sembly met under his governors.h.i.+p, 1758. Responsible for the expulsion of the Acadians. Died at Halifax, Oct. 19, 1760. =Bib.=: _Dict. Nat. Biog._; Akins, _History of Halifax_; Parkman, _Montcalm and Wolfe_; Hannay, _History of Acadia_; Richard, _Acadia_. _See also_ Acadians, Expulsion of the.

=Lawrence, Joseph W.= =T= Supports Tilley in 1850, 10.

=Laws, Captain.= =Dr= Sent with seventy men to attack Arnold in rear, 129; completes discomfiture of enemy, 131. =Hd= Effects arrest of Du Calvet, 285.

=Le Baillif.= =Ch= Under clerk at Tadoussac, 133; placed in charge of storehouse by Kirke, 195; a bad character, 202-204.

=Le Baillif, George.= =Ch= Recollet missionary, 87; goes to France, as delegate from colony, 136.

=Lebel, J. G.= =E= Commissioner under Seigniorial Tenure law, 187.

=Le Ber, Jeanne=, daughter of Jacques Le Ber, of Montreal. =Index=: =L= Birth, baptism, and virtues of, 91; mortifications practised by, 92.

=Le Ber, Pierre.= =L= House of charity established by, 245.

=Le Ber de Senneville, Jacques= (1633-1706). One of the princ.i.p.al merchants of Montreal; married in 1658 Jeanne, sister of Charles Le Moyne. In 1673 engaged with Aubert de la Chesnaye in the fur trade at Cataraqui, and aroused the hostility of Governor Perrot of Montreal, who was also interested in the fur trade. In 1675 sold out his rights at Cataraqui to La Salle; and four years later acquired the seigniory of Senneville. Mentioned in 1691 as in a fur-trading partners.h.i.+p with Frontenac. =Index=: =F= Imprisoned by Perrot, 92; La Barre's dealings with, 175. =Bib.=: Parkman, _Frontenac_.

=Le Borgne de Belle Isle, Emmanuel.= =Ch= Takes Fort St. Pierre, 236.

=Le Brun de Duplessis, Jean-Baptiste.= Born at Corbie, in Picardy, about 1730. Came to Canada about 1755 and joined the Bearn Regiment; practised as a notary in Quebec for many years. Died there some time after 1796.

_See_ R. S. C., _Trans._, 1900, I, 129-130. =Index=: =Dr= Carleton's account of, 68.

=Le Canadien.= Newspaper, published at Quebec. =Index=: =BL= On the political situation in 1842, 116. =C= First French newspaper in Quebec, 95; suppressed by Governor Craig, 95. =P= Established in 1806 by Bedard, Panet, and other French-Canadian leaders, 28; suppressed by Sir James Craig, 29.

=Le Caron, Joseph.= =Ch= Recollet missionary, 85; goes to country of the Hurons, 88; with Champlain visits the Tionnontates or Petuneux, 106; meets Father d'Olbeau at Three Rivers, 107; sails for France, 111; becomes commissary of the Recollets, in Canada, 112; performs first marriage ceremony in Canada, 113; proceeds to Huron country, 149; returns to France, 208; death of, 226. =L= Missionary labours of, 3.

=Bib.=: Parkman, _Pioneers of France_.

=Le Chausseur.= =F= Secretary to Frontenac, 139.

=Le Clercq, Chrestien.= Recollet missionary in Canada, and historian of his order. =Index=: =F= On great need for Recollet order in Canada, 72; on Schenectady ma.s.sacre, 247; on ”flag” incident in siege of Quebec, 296. =Ch= Quoted, 112, 114; praises virtue of early Canadian settlers, 258. =Bib.=: _etabliss.e.m.e.nt de la Foy dans la Nouvelle France_, trans.

by Shea, under the t.i.tle _First Establishment of the Faith_; _Nouvelle Relation de la Gaspesie_, trans. for the Champlain Society by Ganong, under the t.i.tle _New Relation of Gaspesia_. Both these translations give in the introductions biographical details of the author as far as known.

=Lecompte-Dupre, J. B.= =Dr= Colonel of Quebec militia, 246.

=Le Diable.= =WM= Name given to floating battery, 87, 104.

=Le Du.= =S= French priest, deported, 190.

=Lee.= =W= Receiver-general, New Brunswick, 69.