IMAGES AND documents regarding des groseilliers

Portrait of Medard Choart Groseilliers

Portrait of Pierre Radisson

Radisson a Coureur des Bois

Prince Rupert. Port Rupert was named by Groseilliers.

1659- The crude shelter was in Ashland, Wisconsin near Chequamegon Bay Lake Superior1659. The marker commemorates a crude shelter made of tree boughs built by Radisson and Groseilliers during their unauthorized 1659 expedition into the Lake Superior region—widely considered the first European outpost in present-day Wisconsin. Their subsequent conflicts with New France authorities over trading licenses eventually led them to seek English backing, which helped inspire the creation of the Hudson's Bay Company. [1] (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9dard_des_Groseilliers),

Groseillier sand Radisson at work chasing for furs to bring to The Hudson Bay.

A sketch of our 2 explorers

A meeting with the natives.

Hudson Bay Company was founded in 1670 because of these explorers accomplishments.

Hudson's Bay Company, contemporary English colonial officials gave the duo literal, informal translations of their French names: Groseilliers nick name was" gooseberry" . Radissons nickname was "Radishes". That is what their names meant in French.

Selkirk buys the Hudson Bay company and gets 300,000 kilometers of land.

The master Radisson and the Entrepreneur Groseilliers .

Tracking the travels of our two explorers

The routes the two men traveled many times.

Their travels of Lake Superior took them to Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario.

A sketch of Groseilliers.

Meeting at Hudson Bay Company hoping to get a good amount of money for their furs.

More fur trading.

The icebreaker named after Groseilliers.

Sketches of our Coureur de bois,

On the job. Radisson standing. Groseilliers sitting beside him.

Hudson Bay a very early photograph.

Another earlier sketch of the Hudson Bay Company.

The brighter new look of a Hudson Bay Store.

A coloured drawing of Groseilliers and Radisson greeting the natives.

Another meeting with the natives. Radisson was fluent in several Native languages. He learned when he was captured twice and lived among them when adopted by a family who lost their son during one of the wars against other tribes.

Our explorers about to leave for either France or England as at one time they were working for one or the other country.

A wonderful sketch of Groseilliers and a native in full regalia.

Plaque commemorating Groseilliers and Radisson at Trois-Riviere. Medard Choart Sieur Des Groseilliers in the years 1625 -1698 Brother -in-law to Radisson had his home here. The Hudson Bay Company owes its existence to these fearless explorers

King Charles II at his coronation. He Knighted Des Groseilliers. "Knight of the Garter"

Pierre Étienne Radisson

A ship that might have taken our explorers back and forth to England and France.

This is the hut with the plaque on it.

In 1659 the coureur de bois Pierre Radisson and his brother-in-law, Médart Chouart Des Grosseilliers, left Montreal on a illicit voyage of trade and exploration north of Lake Superior. Here they conceived the idea of tapping this fur-rich region from Hudson Bay. Failing to enlist French support for the scheme, they turned to England; the result was the founding of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1670. The next two decades saw the erratic Radisson alternately in the service of France and England, in Hudson Bay, Canada and the Caribbean. In 1687 he became an English subject, and he spent the rest of his life in London.