Category: French explorers

Category: French explorers

French explorers penetrated Gabon's dense jungles between 1862 and 1887.

* 1673 – French explorers Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet reach the Mississippi River and become the first Europeans to make a detailed account of its course.

Lake Erie was the last of the Great Lakes to be explored by Europeans, since the Iroquois who occupied the Niagara River area were in conflict with the French, and they did not allow explorers or traders to pass through.

* A number of accounts by 17th and 18th century French explorers: Jean-Bernard Bossu, François-Marie Perrin du Lac, Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, Dumont ( as published by Fr.

The lake was known to French explorers as Lac des Prairies.

While the early French explorers that encountered the sites made no use of the metals due to the difficulties in transporting it, the copper was eventually traded throughout the continent along major river routes.

His discovery inspired other French, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese treasure hunters and explorers who also took their toll on the collection.

Intimate relations among Native American and Europeans were widespread, beginning with the French and Spanish explorers and trappers.

* Julian Stockwin's nautical fiction series, the The Kydd Series, includes the book Command ( 2006 ) in which Thomas Kydd takes a ship to Van Diemen's Land, at the behest of then governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King, for the purpose of preventing French explorers from establishing a French settlement on the island.

* June 17 – French explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Joliet reach the headwaters of the Mississippi River and descend to Arkansas.

Category: French explorers

French explorers, missionaries, trading companies, and soldiers gradually extended the area under French control inland from the lagoon region.

European exploration came later, beginning in the 16th century with Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto and French explorers led by René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle.

* Thomas Aubert ( Born 1500's ), navigator and one of the first French explorers of the New World

The name of the lake is derived from early French explorers who named it for the Huron people inhabiting the region.

The French colonists and explorers, who spelled the term Kilistinon, Kiristinon, and Cristinaux, used the term for numerous tribes which they encountered north of Lake Superior, in Manitoba, and west of there.

The French first came to the New World as explorers, seeking a route to the Pacific ocean and wealth.

" French explorers had noted ... existence the area as early as the seventeenth century, in 1772 Alexander Henry had prospected for copper on the Ontonagon River near Victoria.

The total population of the Sioux ( Lakota, Santee, Yankton, and Yanktonai ) was estimated at 28, 000 by French explorers in 1660.

French Canadian explorers founded Mobile as the first capital of Louisiana in 1702, and took advantage of the war to build Fort Toulouse at the confluence of the Tallapoosa and Coosa in 1717, trading with the Alabama and Coushatta.

Fort CarolineEuropean explorers first arrived in the area 1562, when French Huguenot explorer Jean Ribault charted the St. Johns River.

* 1541 – French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada.

* 1911 – Henri Elzéar Taschereau, French Canadian jurist and Chief Justice of Canada ( b. 1836 )

The death of James Wolfe | General Wolfe during the Battle of the Plains of Abraham ; the campaigns of the French and Indian War resulted in British control of modern Canada.

Conversely in francophone Canada, one hundredth of a Canadian dollar is informally called a sou ( penny ), though cent is official in both English and French.

The French also built the Louisbourg Lighthouse in 1734, the first lighthouse in Canada and one of the first in North America.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission ( CRTC, French: Conseil de la radiodiffusion et des télécommunications canadiennes ) is a public organisation in Canada with mandate as a regulatory agency for broadcasting and telecommunications.

* Township ( Canada ), known as canton in Canadian French

The languages of Aboriginal peoples in Canada started to influence European languages used in Canada even before widespread settlement took place, and the French of Lower Canada provided vocabulary to the English of Upper Canada.

* The name of the letter Z is normally the Anglo-European ( and French ) zed ; the American zee is less common in Canada, and it is often stigmatized, though the latter is not uncommon, especially in younger speakers.

This is particularly the case in eastern Canada apart from Quebec which is French speaking.

In Canada, English and French are official languages and places have names in both languages.

The Maritimes are home to Mi ' kmaq, Maliseet and Passamaquoddy people and have an extensive history of French and British settlement dating back to the seventeenth century, forming a unique culture that predates Canada.

The Constitution of Canada ( La Constitution du Canada in French ) is the supreme law in Canada ; the country's constitution is an amalgamation of codified acts and uncodified traditions and conventions.

As a bilingual act of parliament, the Canada Act 1982 has the distinction of being the only legislation in French that has been passed by an English or British parliament since Norman French ceased to be the language of government in England.

In France, Claude François who re-invented himself as the king of French disco, released " La plus belle chose du monde ", a French version of the Bee Gees hit record, " Massachusetts ", which became a big hit in Canada and Europe and " Alexandrie Alexandra " was posthumously released on the day of his burial and became a worldwide hit.

In Quebec, Canada and in France there is a French movement with the founder Olivier Manitara and The Essene Spirit.

* Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada featuring strong French Canadian influence, but with even more " crooked " tunes.

* French River, Colchester, Nova Scotia, Canada