Gabriel Franchère

Gabriel Franchère ( 3 November 1786 –12 April 1863) was a French Canadian author and explorer of the Pacific Northwest.

Franchère was born in Montreal to Gabriel Franchère (4 March 1752 - 16 May 1832) and Marie-Félicité Morin (20 August 1760 - 28 September 1807). He later joined the Pacific Fur Company as a merchant apprentice, arriving at Fort Astoria on the Tonquin.^[1] After Astoria was sold to the North West Company, Franchère returned to Montreal overland in 1814. He was employed for a time by John Jacob Astor in Montreal.^[1] He wrote Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America,^[1] which was published in 1819. This work was translated into English and edited in 1851, and later rereleased as part of the General Series of the Champlain Society in 1969.^[2] The untranslated version was one of Washington Irving's sources for his book Astoria.^[1]

The mountain Franchère Peak in the Canadian Rockies was named in his honor in 1917.^[3]

References

External links

• Gabriel Franchère from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography
• The Quebec History Encyclopedia: Gabriel Franchère from Marianopolis College
• Works by Gabriel Franchère at Project Gutenberg
  • Narrative of a Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America in the years 1811, 1812, 1813, and 1814 or the First American Settlement on the Pacific
• Works by or about Gabriel Franchère at Internet Archive
• "Franchère, Gabriel" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.

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