Origin of Naming of Frenchman River - Correspondence. - 1955.

Correspondence between the principal of Val-Marie School and the University of Saskatchewan Archives relating to the etymology of the Frenchman River in Saskatchewan. Included is an typed excerpt of a journal written by the explorer Louis-Joseph Gaultier de La Vérendrye.

Historical note:

The Frenchman River rises in Cypress Lake and is fed by streams flowing off the southern flank of the Cypress Hills. It flows eastward across southwestern Saskatchewan before turning south across the 49th Parallel and into the Milk River in northern Montana. The origin of the name is uncertain but both Métis and Francophone settlers occupied the region in the early 1900s. The origin of the name is uncertain but both Métis and Francophone settlers occupied the region in the early 1900s. The Frenchman River is known locally as the Whitemud River, after the white clays common to the area.