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A mémoire written by De la Chesnaye in 1696 see Documents Nouvelle France, 1492-1712 distinctly refers to a coureur's trail from Lake Superior to Lake Assiniboine or Lake Winnipeg. There is no record of any Frenchmen but Radisson and Groseillers having followed such a trail to the land of the Assiniboines the Manitoba of to-day before 1676.
Chouart's letters are found in the Documents de la Nouvelle France, Tome I 1492-1712. Father Sylvie, a Jesuit who accompanied the de Troyes expedition, gives the fullest account of the overland raids.
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