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The Fur Trade at Lachine National Historic Site is a historic building located in the borough of Lachine in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, at the western end of the Lachine Canal. It is a National Historic Site of Canada. [1] Beginning in the 17th century, voyageurs would launch their canoes from this location to transport trade goods thousands of ...
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 ...
This name remained in use until the mid-19th century, but later came to be replaced by the name of the adjacent town of Lachine. [2] The name "Lachine" itself is derived from the French name for China - La Chine. [3] The first Europeans known to have traveled above these rapids were Champlain and Étienne Brûlé on 13 June 1611.
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 ...
Volume 1, Volume 2 (hosted by the Portal to Texas History) The Handbook of Texas Online: Renê Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle; Detailed Account of La Salle in Texas; La Salle's Map of Texas from A pictorial history of Texas, from the earliest visits of European adventurers, to A.D. 1879, hosted by the Portal to Texas History. Texas Beyond ...
Jacques-René de Brisay, Marquis de Denonville (French pronunciation: [ʒak ʁəne də bʁizɛ maʁki də dənɔ̃vil]; 10 December 1637 – 22 September 1710) was the Governor General of New France from 1685 to 1689 and was an important figure during the intermittent conflict between New France and the Iroquois known as the Beaver Wars.
Peter Skene Ogden (alternately Skeene, Skein, or Skeen; baptised 12 February 1790 – 27 September 1854 [1]) was a British-Canadian fur trader and an early explorer of what is now British Columbia and the Western United States.
Stereophoto from the 1871 expedition. Photo of Maiman, a Mohave Indian interpreter and guide, by Timothy H. O'Sullivan. The Wheeler Survey, carried out in 1872-1879, was one of the "Four Great Surveys" conducted by the United States government after the Civil War primarily to document the geology and natural resources of the American West.