Tête Jaune

Tête Jaune († 1827, also Bostonais Pierre and Pierre Hastination ) was a Métis trapper and scout, who lived in the early 19th century in what is now Canada. Several places, areas and distances are named after him, including the Yellowhead Pass, the Yellowhead Highway and the place Tête Jaune Cache.

Pierre Bostonais had light hair, which is why he was called by the French Tête Jaune ( " Yellow Head '). Like so many of his tribe he came in 1800 from Quebec to the West to work for fur trading companies. These were in English hands, so the English translation of his name Yellowhead.

The Métis could be the end of their contracts in the mountainous country between Hudson Hope and the Fort George area in Jasper down and lived by hunting and occasional jobs as a travel companion for the North West Company and the Hudson's Bay Company. Tête Jaune preferred to work for the Hudson's Bay Company. The few written information available to us today, come from correspondence and business reports, this trading company. In the report from 1819 is to be read from an expedition, the Tête Jaune led. The expedition started in trading house St. Mary 's House at the confluence of the Smoky River and the Peace River near the present-day town of Peace River, the Smoky River up to Mount Robson and then the Fraser River was followed down to the present-day town of Prince George to the Indians living there to trade.

The reports indicate that Tête Jaune several times in the following years for the Hudson's Bay Company undertook this trade mission, and it was the pass through the Rocky Mountains. The first time the pass in the Hudson 's Bay reports 1826 is mentioned, but it is likely that Tête Jaune found him a few years ago. In 1827 killed the Beaver Indians, who lived on the British Columbian side of the mountains, Tête Jaune, his brother Baptiste, their wives and children.