Medard Chouart of the Currant bushes (baptized the July 31st 1618 with the Charly-on-Marne in France - 1696) was an explorer and tradesman of furs French in News-France.

In News-France

Wire of Medard Chouart and Marie Pear tree, high with the farm, known as the Currant bushes , on banks of the the Marne. Arrived to News-France at the 16 years age, By the Currant bushes during ten years the missionaries Jésuites near the Huron in the area accompanies by the Lake Huron during the Années 1640. Then it is established with Three-Rivers where it becomes a Coureur of wood .

Explorer

Between 1654 and 1656, it explored what is now the north of the Ontario, and was one of the first Europeans to reach the Higher Lac. The indigenous spoke to him then about vast unexploited areas for the trade of the furs in the north and the west of the lake, close to the Hudson Bay.

Forwardings with Radisson

In 1659, with his/her companion Pierre-Spirit Radisson (of which he had married the sister), he turned over in the area of the Higher Lac. To their return in 1660, they brought back a cargo of furs on more than one hundred boats. As they did not have a license for the draft of the furs, the governor of News-France Pierre Voyer d' Argenson confiscated their spoils to them and subjected them to the fine.

Currant bushes went to France to try to obtain justice and interest the French authorities to develop the trade of the furs in the North-West. Having failed, it left with Radisson for Boston to interest the authorities of the New England in its forwardings. It was still a failure but they met the English colonel George Cartwright which took them along to England and submitted them to the Court of the king Charles II.

In June 1668, they left England finally, driving two trading vessels chartered by the Prince Rupert, Eaglet and Nonsuch, towards the Hudson Bay by north. This new shorter road eliminated the need for passing by the river the St. Lawrence controlled by the French. Only Nonsuch arrived at destination, Of the Currant bushes on its board, because Eaglet, damaged in a storm, had to turn over to England with Radisson. Currant bushes turned over the following year to England with a cargo of furs and the success of this mission involved in 1670 the creation of the Compagnie of Hudson Bay.

At the time of a voyage to London in 1674, the two explorers, dissatisfied of their treatment by the company, were convinced by the Jesuit Charles Albanel to return to the France. They were however coldly accepted by the governor Frontenac, and Radisson turned over soon to France. They took part in 1682 in a beginning of reconquest of Hudson Bay for France.

Currant bushes and Radisson were regarded as traitors by the French. But, contrary to Radisson, of the Currant bushes was authorized to turn over to News-France. It helped the French in their military forwardings against its old English allies, which involved the destruction of several of their stations of draft along Hudson Bay. It then returned to settle with Three-Rivers where it died in 1696.

External bond

• Biography on biographical Dictionary of Canada in line

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