Marie-Anne Gaboury

Marie-Anne Gaboury
Marie-Anne Gaboury and Jean-Baptiste Lagimodière meeting First Nations people, c. 1807
Born
Marie-Anne Gaboury

(1780-08-15)15 August 1780
Maskinongé, Quebec
Died14 December 1875(1875-12-14) (aged 95)
St. Boniface, Manitoba
OccupationSettler
Known forFirst woman of European descent to settle in Western Canada; grandmother of Louis Riel
SpouseJean-Baptiste Lagimodière (m. 1806)
Children8, including Julie Lagimodière

Marie-Anne Lagimodière (née Gaboury; 15 August 1780 – 14 December 1875) was a French-Canadian woman noted as both the grandmother of Louis Riel, and as the first woman of European descent to travel to and settle in what is now Western Canada.

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