Prior to this, it was also known as Détroit Saint-Pierre ( by Cartier himself on August 1, 1534, the day of St. Peter ), Labrador Channel ( until 1815 ), and Mingan Passage.

Prior to the 15th century, gunpowder was used on a limited basis, but its use became universal in the early modern period, its apex occurring during the Napoleonic Wars from 1792 to 1815.

Prior to its proclamation as a British settlement in 1836, the area around Adelaide was inhabited by the indigenous Kaurna Aboriginal nation ( pronounced " Garner " or " Gowna ").

Prior to the separation of the colony of Victoria from New South Wales in 1951, the area was called the Port Phillip District of New South Wales.

Prior to entry to high voltage area, terminal components must be grounded using a grounding stick.

Prior to the 19th century, the area which became Mali was criscrossed by trade and communication links, the most important being the Niger River, and important southern terminals of the Trans-Saharan trade routes.

Prior to this contact, the inhabitants of the area were primarily animists living in small autonomous communities.

Prior to addressing the nation, President Clinton wanted to ground all planes in the Oklahoma City area to prevent the bombers from escaping by air, but decided against it.

Prior to the Omride period the site appears to have been the center of an extensive wine and oil production area, which may have accounted for its choice as the new capital.

Prior to withdrawing from the area in 1971, Britain delineated the internal borders among the seven emirates in order to preempt territorial disputes that might hamper formation of the federation.

Prior to its inclusion within the fenced compound that now includes the Old Executive Office Building to the west and the Treasury Building to the east, this sidewalk served as a queuing area for the daily public tours of the White House.

Prior to this, the site was in an unincorporated area of Alameda County.

Prior to the Central District being created in 1975 the area had historically been called Clackmannanshire and there was strong pressure to resurrect this title rather than hold to the rather bland title of " Central Region ".

Prior to 1900, the area occupied by what would become the Metropolitan Borough of Westminster had been administered by five separate local bodies: the Vestry of St George Hanover Square, the Vestry of St Martin in the Fields, Strand District Board of Works, Westminster District Board of Works and the Vestry of Westminster St James.

Prior to independence, " Harare " was the name of the Black residential area now known as Mbare.

Prior to the arrival of the missionaries, some 550 natives were scattered throughout the local area ; by 1790, the number of converted Christians had grown to 700, and just six years later nearly 1, 000 " neophytes " ( recent converts ) lived in or around the Mission compound.

Prior to joining the Our Gang comedies, " Sonny ," as he was called by his family, modeled children's clothing for a Dallas department store and was also seen around the Dallas area on highway billboards and in print advertisements for Wonder Bread.

Prior to European contact, the area was inhabited by the Mocama, a Timucuan-speaking group who lived throughout the coastal areas of northern Florida.

Prior to 1821 the area of Indian River County was part of the Spanish colony of East Florida.

Prior to that the area was an unincorporated portion of Los Angeles County.

Prior to the creation of the department, the area was not a natural unit, but much of it was commercially prosperous thanks to traditional industries such as salt and cognac production.

Prior to that time, the area was inhabited for thousands of years by varying cultures of the hunter-gatherer groups of indigenous peoples during the late Woodland Period and earlier.

Prior to the Europeans ' arrival to the area, it was inhabited by numerous Native American tribes, with the Cowlitz tribe being the largest.

Prior to the arrival of foreign settlers, the area that would later become Kimble County was inhabited by several Native American groups, including the Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache, and Lipan Apache.

Prior to Anglo settlement, the area was inhabited by the Karankawa Indians.

Prior to the encroachment of white settlers in present day Sevier County in the mid-18th century, the area had been inhabited for as many as 20, 000 years by nomadic and semi-nomadic Native Americans.

Prior to its formal founding, the area was the site of several American Revolutionary War battles: Williams ' Plantation, Dec. 31, 1780 ; Mud Lick, March 2, 1781 ; and Bush River, May 1781.

Prior to its takeover the company was headquartered in a facility in Northwest unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States that now serves as HP's United States headquarters.

Prior to the arrival of the Tai people and culture into what is now Thailand, the region hosted a number of indigenous Mon-Khmer and Malay civilizations.

Prior to the Middle Ages, the Visigoths, as well as other Germanic peoples, followed what is now referred to as Germanic paganism.

Prior to World War I, Gretzky's paternal grandfather Anton ( Tony ) Gretzky immigrated along with his family to Canada via the United States from the Russian Empire ( what is now Grodno, Belarus ).

Prior to the launch of its HD feed in 2004, some sitcoms and drama series were presented in this format, but now reality, talk, and game shows ( American Idol being the lone exception, as it is presented in High Definition ) are only presented in the enhanced definition widescreen mode.

Prior to restoration work performed between 1990 and 2001, the tower leaned at an angle of 5. 5 degrees, but the tower now leans at about 3. 99 degrees.

Prior to Mozambique's independence in 1975, thousands of tourists from South Africa and Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ) frequented the city and its scenic beaches, high-quality hotels, restaurants, casinos and brothels.

Prior to the Department of Transportation, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Transportation administered the functions now associated with the DOT.

Prior to the Bastille, the main royal castle in Paris was the Louvre, in the west of the capital, but the city had expanded by the middle of the 14th century and the eastern side was now exposed to an English attack.

Prior to version 2. 0. 1, OpenOffice used the Java API JavaMail in mail merge to generate emails, but this has now been replaced by Python-component implementing this functionality.

Prior to the speech the Armada had been driven from the Strait of Dover in the Battle of Gravelines eleven days earlier, and had by now rounded Scotland on its way home, but troops were still held at ready in case the Spanish army of Alexander Farnese, the Duke of Parma, might yet attempt to invade from Dunkirk ; two days later they were discharged.

Prior to 1921 " Uzbek " and " Sart " were considered to be different dialects ; " Uzbek " was a vowel-harmonised Kipchak dialect spoken by descendants of those who arrived in Transoxiana with Shaybani Khan in the 16th century, who lived mainly around Bukhara and Samarkand, although the Turkic spoken in Tashkent was also vowel-harmonised ; " Sart " was a Qarluq dialect spoken by the older settled Turkic populations of the region in the Ferghana Valley and the Kashka-Darya region, and in some parts of what is now the Samarkand Province ; it contained a heavier admixture of Persian and Arabic, and did not use vowel-harmony.

Prior to European exploration and settlement the Pinellas peninsula was inhabited by the Tocobaga, who built a town and large temple mound overlooking the bay in what is now Safety Harbor.

Prior to the merger, America West operated two hubs: its base location at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix, Arizona and a secondary hub ( now defunct ) at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Prior to the setting up of Na Fianna in Dublin in 1909, it has now transpired that Lord Baden Powell had reportedly unsuccessfully sought the assistance of Patrick Pearse in setting up a branch of his Boy Scouts in Dublin.

Prior to 1870, the portion of the Republican valley that now includes Harlan County was a prized hunting ground for the Native Americans ; and the threat of attack deterred white settlement in the area.

Prior to the 19th century the area now forming the Borough was practically unoccupied: very few of the present settlements were mentioned in the Domesday Book, although the village of Bexley has a charter dated 814CE.

Prior to this merger, the head of local government was the County Judge / Executive, a post that still exists but now has few powers.

Prior to the arrival of non-indigenous settlers in the 1830s, the area now known as Tipton County was inhabited by the Miami and Delaware tribes.

Prior to this, the county seat had been set at Williamsburg ( now Bayou Cane ), approximately 4 miles northwest of present-day downtown Houma.

Prior to the 1830s, the area now occupied by Evanston was mainly uninhabited, consisting largely of wetlands and swampy forest.

Prior to 1900 this area was known as Clements, but is now named for William Theodore Hieronymous ( a sawmill operator and postmaster ).

Prior to the arrival of European settlers in North America, Native American settlements appear to have been limited to the area north of the Indian River, north of what is now Bethany Beach ; even after Europeans pushed the Native Americans — mostly Nanticokes -- out of their coastal settlements in the mid-17th century, the Native Americans moved west to settle around Oak Orchard, Delaware, and in the Millsboro, Delaware, area rather than south toward what would become Bethany Beach.