Augustin le Gardeur de Courtemanche (December 16, 1663 – June 29, 1717) was a Canadian soldier and ambassador from Labrador.
[1] In the fall of 1700, he was sent with Jean Enjalran to convince the Iroquois and the Odawa to make a peace deal in Montréal.
[2] De Courtemanche was granted a ten-year land concession adjacent to the Strait of Belle Isle, giving him exclusive seal hunting and Indian trading rights there.
He probably returned to Labrador in 1704, as a wrote a memoir to its intendant, Jacques Raudot, describing his military service.
On November 12, 1712, de Courtemanche was named commandant of Labrador, tasked with enduring its fishing interests.