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Rh XAVIEB LADEROUTE

ANTOINE BONANFANT

ANDRE LA CHAPELLE

PIERRE PAPIN

LOUIS B. VANDALLE

JEAN B. DU CHARME

FABIEN MALOIN

LUC PAGNON

ETIENNE GREGOIRE

AMABLE ARCOUETTE

PIERRE DE LORD

LOUIS A. VANDALLE

JOHN SANDERS

PIERRE PARISEAU

CHARLES RONDEAU

DAVID DONPIERRE

ANDRE DU BOIS

PIERRE DEPOT

MOYSE LOR

PIERRE LE COURSE

JOSEPH BERNABE

BAPTISTE DEGUIRE

ADOLPHE CHAMBERLAIN

JEAN LINGRAS

ALEXIS AUBICHON

JEAN SERVANS

MICHELLE LAFERTE

JEAN B. DALCOURSE

LOUIS OSANT

JEAN B. AUBICHON

ANTOINE FELICE

MICHAEL LAFROMBOISE

JOSEPH GERVAIS

JEAN B. PANPIN

OLIVIER BRISCBOIS

THOMAS ROA

LOUIS BOIVERS

ANDRE LANGTAIN

ETIENNE LUCIER

ALEXIS LAPRATTE

PIERRE BELAQUE.

The following were Frenchmen who came to Oregon in the spring of 1842, except Matthieu, who came in the fall. They were at the meeting at Champoeg. This list has, perhaps, never been published:

GEDEREAU SENCALLE

THOMAS MOISON

PIERRE GANTHIER

AUGUSTIN REMON

JOSEPH MATTE

FRANCIS BERNIER

F. X. MATTHIEU.

During the first months of the year 1843, the question of organizing an independent or provisional government, until the United States should extend its authority over Oregon, was much discussed. Debates were held at Oregon City, and the project was the matter of ordinary conversations at Salem and Tualatin Plains. The leaders of the movement, as is well known, saw the necessity of the whole community participating, and devised a plan that would interest all. The French Canadians could not be interested in the general question of a new government; being quite contented as they were, and having unlimited faith in McLoughlin, with whom they did all their business, and from whom they obtained all the counsel and protection they felt needed.