Passenger Testimonies

Marie-Madeleine Talon

I joined my mother and father on La Salle’s expedition. I was attacked by Natives at Fort St. Louis but some Indian women saved me and my brothers. The Spanish explorer De León discovered me and my brother living among the Karankawas in 1690, and they reunited me with my brother Pierre. The Spanish gave the Indians a horse for each of us and some smoking tobacco. Eventually I returned to France and married, settling permanently in Canada.