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'''Claude-Godefroy Coquart''' (February 2, 1706 – July 4, 1765) was a [[Jesuit]] priest who probably arrived in [[Quebec City|Quebec]] in 1739. He was almost immediately assigned to accompany [[Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye|La Vérendrye]] to the western forts. He was to replace Father [[Jean-Pierre Aulneau]] who had died in the massacre on  [[Lake of the Woods]] in 1736.

They left for the west in June, 1741 and Coquart was left at either  [[Fort Michilimackinac]] or [[Fort Kaministiquia]] because of the riskiness of starting a new mission further west. We do know that he was aware of, and wrote about [[La Colle]]'s raid on the [[Sioux]] of the Prairies in 1741. Coquart joined the La Vérendryes at [[Fort La Reine]] in 1743 and returned east when the Sieur de La Vérendrye lost the commandant post in 1744. He was the first recorded missionary in present-day Manitoba and the first to travel so far west.

== See also ==
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* [[Jean-Pierre Aulneau]]
* [[Charles-Michel Mesaiger]]

== References ==
* {{cite DCB |first=Joseph |last=Cossette |title=Coquart, Claude-Godefroy |volume=3 |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/coquart_claude_godefroy_3E.html}}
* [http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/metis11.htm ''Metis Culture 1741-1742''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325104120/http://www.telusplanet.net/public/dgarneau/metis11.htm |date=2009-03-25 }}
* {{cite CE1913 |wstitle=Claude-Godefroi Coquart |first=Edward Peter |last=Spillane |volume=4}}
* {{cite encyclopedia |last=Spillane |first=Edward |title=Claude-Godefroi Coquart |encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=4 |location=New York |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |date=1908 |access-date=10 January 2016 |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04354c.htm}}

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