Begourat was a chief of the Montagnais Indians whose summer home was at Tadoussac

Tadoussac, Quebec

Tadoussac is a village in Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Saguenay rivers. It was France's first trading post on the mainland of New France and an important trading post in the seventeenth century, making it the oldest continuously inhabited European settlement in...

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It was at Tadoussac that summer that Begourat met with François Gravé Du Pont

François Gravé Du Pont

François Gravé , said Du Pont , was a French navigator , an early fur trader and explorer in the New World.Gravé Du Pont is known to have traded furs in the New France, since maybe 1580, surely before 1599, reaching Trois-Rivières in...

 and Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain

Samuel de Champlain , "The Father of New France", was a French navigator, cartographer, draughtsman, soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnologist, diplomat, and chronicler. He founded New France and Quebec City on July 3, 1608....

. He was preparing to lead a war-party against the Iroquois in the Richelieu River

Richelieu River

The Richelieu River is a river in Quebec, Canada. It flows from the north end of Lake Champlain about north, ending at the confluence with the St. Lawrence River at Sorel-Tracy, Quebec downstream and northeast of Montreal...

area. Champlain detailed the pre-raid events in his journals.

At the time of the departure of the French, Begourat gave his son to Gravé Du Pont to take to France.

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online