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"Madame" Marie Aioe Dorion Venier Toupin (ca. 1786 – September 5, 1850) was the only female member of an overland expedition sent by Pacific Fur Company to the Pacific Northwest in 1810. Like her first husband, Pierre Dorion Jr. , she was Métis .
Marie Aioe Dorion (c.1786 – September 5, 1850), only female member of the Astor Expedition Noël Dorion (July 24, 1904 - March 9, 1980), a law professor, lawyer and Canadian politician Pierre-Antoine Dorion (ca 1789 – September 12, 1850), a businessman and political figure in Lower Canada
In 1809, Manuel Lisa hired Dorion for his services as an interpreter and "conducted their traders in safety through the different tribes of the Sioux." [5] While based at Fort Lisa, Dorion quickly became in debt due to excessive purchases of alcohol. [5] In June 1810, Dorion, Marie and their two infant children left Fort Lisa for St. Louis. [6]
An outpost some distance away maintained by the trappers was also attacked. Four PFC employees were killed there, including Pierre Dorion Jr., though his wife Marie Aioe Dorion and two infant children survived. Marie survived the winter alone and took care of the two children until she reached Fort Okanogan in the spring.
Marie is a variation of the feminine given name Maria. ... Marie Aioe Dorion (c. 1786–1850), Métis fur trader; Marie Doro (1882–1956), American actress;
(Walks Far Woman also happens to be the title of a book by Clark Spurlock from 1976, and a 1982 TV movie based on said book, neither of which have to do with Marie Dorion but revolve around the author's Blackfoot grandmother)
Marie Doro (born Marie Katherine Stewart; May 25, 1882 – October 9, 1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era. [1]She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of "Sherlock Holmes fame", her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors.
The first group of Acadian prisoners were returned to Acadia in 1705. Noel and Marie Doiron were delayed in returning because the New Englanders had refused to release the notorious privateer Pierre Maisonnat dit Baptiste until John Williams was released. After two years in exile, Noel Doiron and the other Acadian prisoners finally returned to ...