Capturé puis adopté par la nation iroquoise des Agniers, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (mort en ) acquiert des connaissances sur les mœurs des Premières Nations qui lui permettent de jouer un rôle majeur dans la traite des fourrures en Nouvelle-France pendant une période critique de son histoire. Pour le compte des Anglais, il contribue ensuite à la fondation et au développement de la Hudson’s Bay Company. Il repasse au service de la France et termine sa carrière en Angleterre. Doté d’une capacité d’adaptation exceptionnelle, Radisson est un intermédiaire culturel influent de la traite des fourrures, tant en Amérique qu’en Europe.
RADISSON, PIERRE-ESPRIT, coureur des bois, explorateur, commerçant de fourrures et auteur de récits de voyage, né vers à Paris, fils de Pierre-Esprit Radisson et de Madeleine Hénaut, veuve de Sébastien Hayet ; en , il épousa à Londres Mary Kirke, et ils eurent au moins un fils et une fille, puis le 3 mars , dans la paroisse St Martin-in-the-Fields, Londres, Margarett Charlote (Sharlott Margarett) Godet, et de ce mariage naquirent au moins trois fils, et finalement une prénommée Elizabeth, et le couple eut au moins trois filles ; décédé à Londr
Pierre-Esprit Radisson
The French explorer and soldier of fortune Pierre-Esprit Radisson (ca. ) is the most romantic and least known of all the famous explorers of the Canadian North and West. He was one of the originators of the Hudson's Bay Company.
Pierre-Esprit Radisson was born in France, but virtually no information survives concerning his early life. When still quite young, he somehow made his way to New France, where his half sister Marguerite lived. After her husband's death at the hands of the Iroquois, Marguerite married again. Her second husband, Medard Chouart Des Groseilliers, was to share much of the adventurous life of Radisson.
From his own sketchy account of his career, it appears that Radisson was captured by the Iroquois in the early s, was adopted by an Indian family, and spent some 2 years traveling and hunting with his captors. He escaped in , sailed to Amsterdam, and arrived back in Three Rivers late the same year. Apparently, Radisson remained in New France for the next 4 years, except for one more trip made to the Iroquois territory near Albany.
Radisson's first trip west was undertaken with his brother-in-law in They wintered southwest of Lake
Captured and subsequently adopted by the Mohawks, who were members of the Iroquois confederacy, Pierre-Esprit Radisson (d. ) acquired knowledge of Indigenous customs, which was key to his important role in the fur trade of New France during a critical period in its history. Working on behalf of the English, he contributed to the founding and development of the Hudson’s Bay Company. He later returned to the service of France and finished his career in England. Endowed with an exceptional ability to adapt, Radisson was an influential cultural intermediary in the fur trade, both in North America and Europe.
RADISSON, PIERRE-ESPRIT, coureur de bois, explorer, fur trader, and author of travel accounts; b. c. in Paris, son of Pierre-Esprit Radisson and Madeleine Hénaut, widow of Sébastien Hayet; m. first in Mary Kirke in London, and they had at least one son and one daughter; m. secondly 3 March Margarett Charlote (Sharlott Margarett) Godet in the parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, and they had at least three sons; m. thirdly Elizabeth ———, and they had at least three daughters; d. in London between 17 and 21 June , o
Memorable Manitobans: Pierre-Esprit Radisson (c)
Explorer, fur trader.
Born in France around , he came to New France at an early age. In he was captured by Mohawks and adopted into an Indigenous family. He escaped once, was tortured, and was saved from death by his adopted family, only to escape again. He became an interpreter and guide for the Jesuits before joining his brother-in-law, Médard Chouart des Groseilliers, in the fur trade. The two returned from Hudson Bay to New France laden with furs in , only to have their cargo confiscated and themselves thrown into prison for trading without official permission. Not surprisingly, they turned to the English for support, first in New England and then in London.
In they headed for the Bay in English ships, returning with such an impressive load of beaver skins that Charles II chartered the Hudson's Bay Company in The two men continued to work for the HBC until , when they were persuaded to return to the French. Radisson spent several years in Africa in a disastrous naval campaign against the Dutch colonies, and in managed to become connected with an unofficial French fur-trading/military expedition to the Bay, which in v
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