Note 202 — Chapter XXVI
J. V. (Jedediah Vincent) Huntington translation
Franchère here refers to the Jesuit missionary, Father Aulneau (or Auneau), who came to Canada in 1734, accompanied Vérendrye to Fort St. Charles the following year, and was massacred by the Sioux on an island in Lake of the Woods (June, 1736), upon his return journey to Mackinac. See Jesuit Relations (Thwaites ed., Cleveland, 1896-1901), lxviii and lxxi; also Burpee, “The Lake of the Woods Tragedy,” in Royal Society of Canada Transactions (Ottawa, 1904), 2nd series, section ii, vol. ix.—Ed.