Larocque, François-Antoine, 1784-1869

found: Dictionary of Canadian Biography, viewed online September 23, 2015 :Larocque, François-Antoine ("LAROCQUE, FRANÇOIS-ANTOINE (he signed LaRocque), businessman; b. 19 Aug. 1784 at L'Assomption, Que., d. 1 May 1869 at Saint-Hyacinthe, Que. In 1801,...he joined the XY Company as a clerk, working in the region of the Assiniboine River from 1802 to 1804. When this company was absorbed by the North West Company in 1804, he continued to work as a clerk...In the autumn of 1804 he left...to go to the Mandan villages on the banks of the Missouri. There...he met the American captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who were under orders to explore the upper Missouri and the northwest as far as the Pacific Ocean. Larocque suggested accompanying them, but when they refused he continued alone on his own expedition. The Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805 contains the description of the first visit of whites to the country of the Crows since the expedition of Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye in 1742, and throws a new light on distinctive features of the Mandans and the Minnetarees (Gros-Ventres-Hidatsa). In 1806 Larocque left the northwest for Montreal, where he founded an unsuccessful business firm...In 1819 Larocque was one of the founders of the Bank of Montreal, and remained a member of its board of directors until 1826...In September 1841...he retired from business.") - http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/larocque_francois_antoine_9E.html

found: His Journal of Larocque from the Assiniboine to the Yellowstone, 1805. Ed., 1910