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His father Jean Baptiste Cadotte, Sr., became a fur trader for French and later British interests in and around the eastern end of Lake Superior. Michel's paternal great-grandfather was a Frenchman named Mathurin Cadeau, and he had come to Lake Superior in the late 17th century on a French exploratory mission.
In the 17th century, the first French explorers approached the great inland sea by way of the Ottawa River and Lake Huron; they referred to their discovery as le lac supérieur (the upper lake, i.e., above Lake Huron). Some 17th-century Jesuit missionaries referred to it as Lac Tracy (for Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy). [16]
By the late 17th century, a trade route through and beyond the Great Lakes had been opened. [12] The Hudson's Bay Company opened in 1670. [12] The North West Company opened in 1784, exploring as far west and north as Lake Athabasca. [12] The American Fur Company, owned and operated by John Jacob Astor, was founded in 1808. By 1830, the American ...
Jesuit missionaries were probably the first Europeans to stop at Vermilion in the 17th century. [2] Territorial governor Lewis Cass and geologist and Indian Agent Henry Schoolcraft passed through Vermilion Point with a party of 44 in 1820 on an official expedition along the south shore of Lake Superior. Henry Schoolcraft took overnight shelter ...
In these expeditions he visited places such as the Ottawa River, Mattawa River, Lake Nipissing, and the French River to Georgian Bay. From Georgian Bay, Brûlé was able to cut into Lake Huron. He paddled up the St. Marys River and portaged into Lake Superior. He journeyed through Lake Simcoe and portaged through what is now Toronto to Lake
Toggle 17th century subsection. 3.1 1610–1629. 3.2 ... Sieur du Lhut reaches the western end of Lake Superior in the fall of the 1679 where he concludes peace talks ...
Mishipeshu is known for guarding the vast amounts of copper in Lake Superior and the Great Lakes Region. Indigenous people mined copper long before the arrival of Europeans to the area. Later, during the 17th century, missionaries of the Society of Jesus arrived in the Great Lakes Region. By that time, taking copper from the region was ...
During the 17th and 18th centuries, control of northern Wisconsin and northeastern Minnesota was hotly contested by the Santee Sioux (Dakota) and the Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe/Anishinaabe). By the close of the 18th century, the Ojibwe had pushed the Dakota out of Wisconsin and much of northern Minnesota to areas west of the Mississippi River.