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4 unusual facts about Corps of Canadian Voyageurs


Corps of Canadian Voyageurs

The Corps of Canadian Voyageurs was raised in September 1812 by the British Army as a military water transportation corps.

The Corps of Voyageurs was organized on the initiative of the North West Company, and its bourgeois and engagés became the officers and men of the corps.

The corps was disbanded in March 1813, and its mission was taken over by the Canadian branch of the British Commissariat Department, a department of HM Treasury, as the Provincial Commissariat Voyageurs.

Pierre de Rastel de Rocheblave

During the War of 1812, he was named captain of the Corps of Canadian Voyageurs and served as major in the militia after the war.



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