Toupin biography

Métis fur trader (c. 1786–1850)

"Madame" Marie Aioe Dorion Venier Toupin (ca. 1786 – September 5, 1850) was the only female member of an overland expedition sent by Pacific Fur Company to the Pacific Northwest in 1810.

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Like her first husband, Pierre Dorion Jr., she was Métis. Her mother was of the Iowa people and her father was French Canadian. She was also known as Marie Laguivoise, a name recorded in 1841 at the Willamette Mission and apparently a variation on Aiaouez, later rendered as Iowa.

Missouri

It is likely that Dorion and Sacajawea knew one another.^[3] Peter Stark notes the similarities between the two women in his book Astoria: both women were originally based in the then-small settlement of St.

Louis, and they were both wives of interpreters in the burgeoning Missouri fur trade.^[3]

Pacific Northwest

Her first husband Pierre Dorion Jr. was hired by the Pacific Fur Company to join Wilson Price Hunt and a group on toupin biography2 HOHUQ