Couture Guillaume


Born in Normandy, 1608. Came to Canada, 1640. Two

years later, on his way to the Huron country with Father Jogues

(q.v.), they were captured by the Iroquois, and carried off to their

villages, where they were tortured. Couture escaped a worse fate by

being adopted into an Iroquois family. In 1661 accompanied Fathers

Dablon and Drouillette (q.v.) on an expedition towards Hudson Bay.

Threatened by an Iroquois war-party, however, they got no farther than

Lake Necouba, and retreated down the Saguenay to Tadoussac. =Bib.=:

Parkman, Old Regime.



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