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The decision of Radisson and Groseilliers to enter the English service led to the formation of the Hudson's Bay Company.

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His career was particularly notable for its repeated transitions between serving Britain and France. There is no image of him other than that provided in his writings and those of the people who encountered him in New France, in Paris on the fringes of the court, on remote Hudson Bay, and in late Stuart London. Many French Canadians until the twentieth century accepted the verdict of his French contemporaries that he was a traitor to France.

Radisson would trace his family, the Hayet-Radissons, to the town St. Malo , [ 8 ] whereas records suggest either Paris or Avignon. His adoptive, Mohawk family advocated for him and materially compensated the bereaved families to spare him execution and temper his torture. As the Iroquois despised cowardice and punished it with death, Radisson's adoptive parents advised him to be brave and yet not too brave, since the Iroquois also sometimes ate the hearts of exceptionally brave men to acquire their courage.

Once eventually released, the overwhelmed Radisson found that, as he would recall, "all my pains and griefs ceased, not feeling the least pain. With other Mohawk warriors, Radisson traveled to a trading post at Fort Orange , then controlled by the Dutch , located in present-day Albany, New York. But Radisson returned to his Mohawk village.

He escaped on 29 October , "at 8 of the clock in the morning".

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Over the next three years, he would embark on several missionary expeditions. His writings largely ignored this period, so little is known about his whereabouts during it, apart from a documented a deed of sale that he signed in November Radisson's biggest influence in Canadian history dates from the period of to , when he was an active coureur-des-bois , fur trader, and explorer.

The year-long trip was planned to collect furs, in order to participate in the ever-lucrative fur trade. Giving paint and make-up only to women overlooked the fact that Ojibwa men used make-up and painted their faces just as much as Ojibwa women did.