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GABOURY, MARIE-ANNE (Lagimonière), first white woman to settle in the west, grandmother of Louis Riel*; b. 15 Aug.
Marie anne lagimodiere biography
1780 in Saint-Antoine-de-la-Rivière-du-Loup (Louiseville), fifth child of Charles Gaboury (Gabourie) and Marie-Anne Tessier (Thésié); d. 14 Dec. 1875 at Saint-Boniface, Man.
Following the death of her father on 7 Dec.
1792, Marie-Anne Gaboury went into domestic service as the assistant housekeeper to the parish priest of Maskinongé. She remained there until her marriage, on 21 April 1806, to Jean-Baptiste Lagimonière* (sometimes written Lajimonière or Lagimodière), who traded furs in the northwest and likely came from Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu.
Immediately following her marriage she travelled with her husband by canoe from Montreal to Fort Gibraltar, at the junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers in present-day Winnipeg.
It was a long, arduous journey that ended when they arrived at a Métis encampment on the Pembina River