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RIGAUD DE VAUDREUIL DE CAVAGNIAL, PIERRE DE, marquis de Vaudreuil
HOCQUART, GILLES
COUTURE (Cousture), GUILLAUME (mort en 1701)
PERROT, NICOLAS
MONTFERRAND, dit Favre, JOSEPH
LE JEUNE, PAUL
RADISSON, PIERRE-ESPRIT
DESJARDINS, ALPHONSE (1854-1920)
CABOT, JEAN
JARRET DE VERCHÈRES, MARIE-MADELEINE (Madeleine, Madelon) (Tarieu de La Pérade)
LACOSTE, MARIE (Gérin-Lajoie)
CALLIÈRE, LOUIS-HECTOR DE
FRÉCHETTE, LOUIS
GAULTIER DE VARENNES ET DE LA VÉRENDRYE, PIERRE (Boumois)
MERCIER, HONORÉ
BELL, ALEXANDER GRAHAM
VERRAZZANO, GIOVANNI DA
TEKAKWITHA (Tekaouïta, Tagaskouïta, Tegakwitha), Kateri (baptisée Catherine)
DONNACONA
BOURGEOYS, MARGUERITE, dite du Saint-Sacrement
WOLFE, JAMES
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