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It was from Fort St. Charles that Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye with Father Aulneau and nineteen other Frenchmen departed on June 6, 1736 and headed for Montreal. On a small island only a few miles from the fort, the whole party was massacred. When the remains were discovered, the heads of the nineteen voyageurs and the bodies of Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye and Jean-Pierre Aulneau were brought back to the fort and buried under the altar stone. These remains helped to confirm the location of the original fort in the early 20th century. A replica of the original Fort St. Charles is situated on Magnussen's Island at the mouth of Angle Inlet . This is part of the Northwest Angle on Lake Of The Woods and is part of Minnesota. The original fort was likely on mainland and the location became an island when the lake levels were raised by control structures on the Winnipeg River. |
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