1780-1875+Marie-Anne+Lagimodiere

Marie-Anne Lagimodiere

Marie-Anne Lagimodiere
 * born in Masquinong QC in 1780
 * when she was 12 years old she house kept for the parish priest
 * when she was 26 she married Jean- Baptiste Lagimodiere, he was a fur trader working for HBC
 * marie-anne went with her husband to the west, even though he tried to tell her not too
 * 1st woman of the Europeans to travel with the fur traders from Quebec to Manitoba and stayed there permanently
 * she gave many woman encouraging words like bravery and courage because of her destination
 * she died at the age of 95 in 1877

this was her as a man Questions: 1. Lagimodiere was the first woman to travel to where? Why? 2. When and where did she born? 3. In 1818, where did she moved?

The daughter of Charles Gaboury and Marie-Anne Tessier, she was born at Maskinonge, in the Parish of Three Rivers, on 6 November 1782. At the age of fourteen she became an assistant housekeeper at the rectory at Maskinonge. It was here that she met, and later married, on 21 April 1806, [|Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière]. She insisted on accompanying her husband back to the Northwest, where he was employed at Pembina by the [|Hudson’s Bay Company]. They left shortly after their wedding for the North-West, arriving at Pembina in August. It is said Madame Lagimodière was the first white woman in the West. On 6 January 1807, she gave birth to a daughter, named Reine, who is reputed to have been the first white child born in the Red River country. The Lagimodières were the first to settle and raise a family on the Prairies. In 1818 they moved to St. Boniface, where Marie-Anne lived until her death. Legends about her courage are common among Franco-Manitobans.