Begourat (

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1603) was a chief of the Montagnais Indians whose summer home was at

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. It was at Tadoussac that summer that Begourat met with

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and

Samuel de Champlain Samuel de Champlain (; 13 August 1574#Fichier]For a detailed analysis of his baptismal record, see #Ritch, RitchThe baptism act does not contain information about the age of Samuel, neither his birth date nor his place of birth. – 25 December ...

. He was preparing to lead a war-party against the Iroquois in the

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area. Champlain detailed the pre-raid events in his journals. At the time of the departure of the French, Begourat gave his son to Gravé Du Pont to take to France.

References

* Jury, Elsie McLoed 1966 Begourat in ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography'', vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, Year of publication: 1966, revised edition: 1979 * Indigenous leaders in Quebec Pre-Confederation Quebec people 17th-century indigenous leaders of the Americas {{Canada-bio-stub