Begourat (fl. 1603) was a chief of the Montagnais Indians whose summer home was at Tadoussac.
It was at Tadoussac that summer that Begourat met with François Gravé Du Pont and Samuel de Champlain. He was preparing to lead a war-party against the Iroquois in the Richelieu River area. Champlain detailed the pre-raid events in his journals.
At the time of the departure of the French, Begourat gave his son to Gravé Du Pont to take to France.
References
- Jury, Elsie McLoed 1966 Begourat in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 1, University of Toronto/Université Laval, Year of publication: 1966, revised edition: 1979[1]
- "Begourat". Dictionary of Canadian Biography (online ed.). University of Toronto Press. 1979–2016.
- ^ Jury, Elsie McLeod. "Begourat". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto/Université Laval. Retrieved 17 April 2020.