Couture, Guillaume

Born in Normandy, 1608. Came to Canada, 1640. Two years later, on his way to the Huron country with Father Jogues ( q.v. ), they were captured by the Iroquois, and carried off to their villages, where they were tortured. Couture escaped a worse fate by being adopted into an Iroquois family. In 1661 accompanied Fathers Dablon and Drouillette ( q.v. ) on an expedition towards Hudson Bay. Threatened by an Iroquois war-party, however, they got no farther than Lake Necouba, and retreated down the Saguenay to Tadou ac. Bib. : Parkman, Old Régime .