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Louis Jolliet
Louis Jolliet , 1645-1700, French explorer, joint discoverer with Jacques Marquette of the upper Mississippi River, b. Quebec prov., Canada. After a year's study of hydrography in France and some years as a trader and trapper on the Great Lakes, Jolliet was appointed (1672) as leader of an expedit... Read more
Portage
Portage . 1 Town (1990 pop. 29,060), Porter co., NW Ind., a suburb of Gary, on Lake Michigan; inc. 1959. The town, which was once surrounded by great industries, manufactures steel and a number of other goods. It is also a shipping center; Burns International Harbor, built in the 1970s, accommodat... Read more
Jacques Marquette
Jacques Marquette , 1637-75, French missionary and explorer in North America, a Jesuit priest. He was sent to New France in 1666 and studied Native American languages under a missionary at Trois Rivières . In 1668 he was sent as a missionary to the Ottawa, spent a winter at Sault Ste Marie, ... Read more
Lake Erie
Lake Erie 9,940 sq mi (25,745 sq km), 241 mi (388 km) long and from 30 to 57 mi (48-92 km) wide, bordered on the N by S Ont., Canada, on the E by W N.Y., on the S by NW Pa. and N Ohio, and on the W by SE Mich. and NW Ohio.; fourth largest of the Great Lakes . It is 572 ft (174 m) above sea level w... Read more
Missouri
Missouri river, c.2,565 mi (4,130 km) long (including its Jefferson-Beaverhead-Red Rock headstream), the longest river of the United States and the principal tributary of the Mississippi River. The length of the combined Missouri-Mississippi system from the headwaters of the Missouri to the mouth... Read more
exploration
exploration travel to a part of the earth that is relatively unknown to the traveler's culture, historically often motivated by a desire for colonization, conquest, or trade. See also space exploration , geography , and articles on localities, e.g., Africa , Arctic, the , Australia . ... Read more
Missouri
Missouri , one of the midwestern states of the United States. It is bordered by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee, across the Mississippi R. (E), Arkansas (S), Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (W), and Iowa (N). Facts and Figures Area, 69,686 sq mi (180,487 sq km). Pop. (2000) 5,595,211,... Read more
Mississippi
Mississippi river, principal river of the United States, c.2,350 mi (3,780 km) long, exceeded in length only by the Missouri River, the chief of its numerous tributaries. The combined Missouri-Mississippi system (from the Missouri's headwaters in the Rocky Mts. to the mouth of the Mississippi River... Read more
Chicago
Chicago , city (1990 pop. 2,783,726), seat of Cook co., NE Ill., on Lake Michigan; inc. 1837. The third largest city in the United States and the heart of a metropolitan area of over 8 million people, it is the commercial, financial, industrial, and cultural center for a vast region and a midcontine... Read more
Arkansas
Arkansas , state in the south-central United States. It is bordered by Tennessee and Mississippi, across the Mississippi R. (E), Louisiana (S), Texas and Oklahoma (W), and Missouri (N). Facts and Figures Area, 53,104 sq mi (137,539 sq km). Pop. (2000) 2,673,400, a 13.7% increase since ... Read more

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Louis Jolliet
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Louis Jolliet Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) was a Canadian explorer...in 1673. The exact birth date of Louis Jolliet is unknown. He was baptized on Sept...Jean Delanglez, Life and Voyages of Louis Jolliet, 1645-1700 (1948). □ Read more
Jolliet, Louis
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Jolliet, Louis (1645–1700) French-Canadian explorer. With Jacques Marquette, he opened the Great Lakes region and travelled down the Mississippi to the mouth of the Arkansas River (1673). Read more
Louis Joliet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition see Jolliet, Louis . Read more
Frontenac, Louis De Buade, Comte de
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature Frontenac, Louis De Buade, Comte de, (1620–98),French governor of New France (1672...bring about their final submission (1696). He aided the explorations of Jolliet, Marquette, and La Salle, established military posts, repulsed the attack... Read more
Louis de Buade Frontenac, comte de Palluau et de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...independence for Canada. His policy was not acceptable to Louis XIV and to his minister Jean Colbert, and, adding to the power...policies toward the indigenous peoples, forwarded explorations by Louis Jolliet, Jacques Marquette, and the sieur de La Salle, and aided in... Read more
Missouri
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...American tribes. French fur trader Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette...established a community near St. Louis, eventually they built the...Missouri to make homes in the St. Louis area. Between 1852 and 1870...to the cities. By 1900 St. Louis was the country's fourth-largest... Read more
Anticosti
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...head of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The island was discovered by Cartier in 1534. Louis XIV granted it to Jolliet as a reward for his discovery of the Mississippi. Jolliet's heirs held it until 1763, when it was annexed to Newfoundland (then a separate... Read more
Jacques Marquette
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Michilimackinac (Mackinac). In December 1672 Louis Jolliet arrived at St-Ignace, carrying...and in mid-May 1673 Marquette and Jolliet left together on their epic exploration...St-Ignace. There they had to stop. Jolliet, although he spoke six Indian languages... Read more
Arkansas
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...headed by Father Jacques Marquette (1637 – 1675) and Louis Jolliet (1645 – 1700) entered the territory, as did Robert...1880s the two largest landowners in Grant County were the St. Louis and Iron Mountain Railroad and the Muskegon Lumber Company... Read more
Mississippi River
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...were seen by French-Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet (1645 – 1700) and French missionary...naming it Louisiana in honor of King Louis XIV (1638 – 1715). After 1763...access to the interior territories. St. Louis, Missouri; Memphis, Tennessee; and New... Read more

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Jolliet-Marquette Explorations
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History JOLLIET-MARQUETTE EXPLORATIONS JOLLIET-MARQUETTE EXPLORATIONS. Louis Jolliet was a native of New France...the voyage. On 17 May 1673 Jolliet and Marquette left St. Ignace...Conception of the Virgin Mary. Jolliet called it first the Buade, after Louis de Buade, Comte de ... Read more
Hennepin, Louis, Narratives of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History HENNEPIN, LOUIS, NARRATIVES OF HENNEPIN, LOUIS, NARRATIVES OF. The Hennepin narratives consist of the three known narratives of exploration written by Father Louis Hennepin, a Franciscan friar born in Belgium around 1640...river, discoveries usually attributed to de la Salle and Louis Jolliet. ... Read more
Chicago
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...In 1673, the French explorers Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette led...the wild garlic or skunkweed, but Jolliet recognized the site's strategic...The French government ignored Jolliet's recommendation to construct a... Read more
Lakes-to-Gulf Deep Waterway
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History LAKES-TO-GULF DEEP WATERWAY LAKES-TO-GULF DEEP WATERWAY. In 1673, Louis Jolliet noted the favorable possibilities for a canal to connect the Great Lakes with the Des Plaines, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers...Cairo, Illinois. Locks and dams at Peoria, La Grange, and Alton, Illinois, were completed during 1938 ... Read more
Joliette
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names Joliette, Quebec/Canada Founded in 1841 by Barthélemi Jolliet, a descendant of Louis Jolliet (see previous entry), after whom it was named. Read more
Missouri River
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...square miles. Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reached the mouth of the Missouri in 1673...Mississippi (ten miles north of Saint Louis). The lower part of the Missouri was known...Independence, which pushed off from Saint Louis in 1819, reached Old Franklin in thirteen... Read more
Joliet
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...daughter of a settler. In 1845 it was renamed after Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), the French‐Canadian explorer...of New France, who passed through the area in 1673. Jolliet also spelt his name Joliet and Joliette. Nearby is the... Read more
Illinois
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...Algonquian‐speaking Illini people, their name simply meaning ‘men’. First explored by two Frenchmen, Louis Jolliet (1645–1700) and Jacques Marquette (1637–75) in 1673, Illinois was ceded to Great Britain in 1763. In... Read more
Iowa
Book article from: Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names ...to have taken its name from the Iowa tribe who took their name from the Sioux word. First explored by the Frenchmen, Louis Jolliet (1645–1700) and Jacques Marquette (1637–75) in 1673, the area was ceded to Spain in 1762. In 1800 it... Read more
Arkansas River
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...Soto became the first European to explore the river on his journey into the Southwest in 1541. The French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette reached its mouth in 1673, in their search for a river "coming in from California on the southern... Read more