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It is now a Parks Canada museum dedicated to the history of this strategic location as a departure and arrival point for fur trading expeditions. The site is separate from Lachine Canal National Historic Site, with which it is inextricably connected. Montreal was the start of nearly all westward canoe routes. See Canadian canoe routes (early ...
A History of Canada. Toronto: George M. Morang. – Also A History of Canada at Google Books; Rushforth, Brett (2012). Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France. University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-3558-6. Wallace, Paul A. W. (January 1956). "The Iroquois: A Brief Outline of their History". Pennsylvania ...
On October 20, this company left Lachine and traveled up the Saint Lawrence River and along the shore of Lake Ontario to the mouth of the Oswego River, site of another French victory in 1756. From there they traveled up the river, crossed the Oneida Carry to the Mohawk River, and descended to German Flatts. They arrived near the settlement on ...
During 1779–80, he helped lead a British expedition against the Spanish at St. Louis, in the Anglo-Spanish War. After he retired from the fur trade, Ducharme represented Montreal County in the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada from 1796 to 1800. He died at Lachine in 1807.
In June 1701, Cadillac set out from Lachine near Montreal with 100 settlers and soldiers. The expedition followed a northerly route up the Ottawa River and across to Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. The expedition reached Grosse Ile on the Detroit River on July 23rd. The following day, the expedition returned upstream several miles to a bluff on ...
Fort Frontenac was garrisoned by the Marines during the Denonville expedition. La Barre's expedition against the Senecas, 1684. Troyes' Hudson Bay expedition, 1686. Denonville's expedition against the Senecas, 1687. Defence of Lachine against the Iroquois, 1689. Manthet's and Sainte-Hélène's expedition against Schenectady, 1690.
René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (/ l ə ˈ s æ l /; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, and the Mississippi River.
Lachine Canal, Quebec; The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site; Lachine station, train station on the Vaudreuil–Hudson line of the Réseau de transport métropolitain commuter train network; Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine, a federal electoral district; Lachine massacre, 1689 attack by Mohawk warriors on the French settlement of ...