Vieux Crapaud
| Vieux Crapaud | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Chief |
Vieux Crapaud (French for "Old Toad"; the name is recorded only in this form) was an elderly chief whose slave, questioned by Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye while La Vérendrye commanded the Poste du Nord in the late 1720s, described in outline the country of the Mandan. The posts of the Poste du Nord were at Kaministiquia, Nipigon, and Michipicoton.[1]
The Dictionary of Canadian Biography groups this account with the reports of the Cree chief Pako and the guide Auchagah among the information La Vérendrye used when he argued for a western route through the border lakes.[1] The chief's own name in an Indigenous language is not given in that source, and nothing further about his life has been taken from the sources used here.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Yves F. Zoltvany, "Gaultier de Varennes et de La Vérendrye, Pierre," Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 3 (University of Toronto/Université Laval, 1974; rev. 2023).