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2 days ago · The next European explorers of the river appeared in 1673 out of French Canada—two canoe loads of voyageurs commanded by Louis Jolliet, a French government agent, and Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit priest.
14 hours ago · Beginning with Father Jacques Marquette and French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet in 1673, a steady stream of explorers and missionaries passed through or settled in the region, but it was not until 1779 that the first non-Native resident made it his permanent home: Jean-Baptist-Point Du Sable maintained a thriving trading post near the mouth ...
2 days ago · Dear Graden Expert, I greatly appreciate it if you can let us know two hardy climbing roses varieties in deep pink and deep red that won’t attract Japanese beetle and are disease resistant and flower profusely a few times a year that is long blooming.
2 days ago · In 1673 Father Marquette and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to explore and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. The park is located in the Dutchtown Neighborhood, bordered by Osage Street to the north, Gasconade Street to the south, Louisiana Avenue to the west and Minnesota Avenue to the east.
2 days ago · The first Europeans to visit Illinois were the French explorers Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette in 1673, when they explored the Mississippi and Illinois rivers. Near present-day Peoria, René-Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, established the first French foothold, Fort Crèvecoeur, and built Fort Saint Louis near Ottawa.
4 days ago · In 2007, a former squadron of the Royal Military College Saint-Jean, Jolliet Squadron, was stood up at RMC as 13 Squadron. The squadron was named in honour of Louis Jolliet, with its first-year flight, Good Flight, named after Herman James Good, a Victoria Cross recipient from the 13th Battalion, CEF. Training plans
4 days ago · Chicago Portage National Historic Site – Commemorates an important travel route first traversed in 1673 by French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet. (If that last name sounds familiar – Old Joliet Prison from our Route 66 Illinois episode and The Blues Brothers get their name from the town named after him.)
