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The AML Louis Jolliet, the only restaurant boat in Quebec City Completely renovated in 2011, the AML Louis Jolliet is the only boat in Quebec City that offer you meals prepared on board. Very versatile and able to accommodate up to 1000 passengers, this boat distinguishes itself by the various atmospheres it provides from one deck to another as ...
JOLLIET, LOUIS, explorer, discoverer of the Mississippi, cartographer, king’s hydrographer, teacher at the Jesuit college at Quebec, organist, business man, and seigneur; baptized 21 Sept. 1645 at Quebec, son of Jean Jollyet, a wheelwright in the service of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, and of Marie d’Abancourt; d. 1700 in New France.
Marquette and Jolliet's journey was the first to determine the courses of rivers including the "Mitchisipi" that ran through the interior of the North American continent, as illustrated in a 1681 map based on the expedition by Melchisedech Thevenot. Library of Congress. Louis Jolliet was born near Quebec in 1645. Not much is known of his early ...
Louis Jolliet. (1645–1700). The French Canadian explorer Louis Jolliet traveled the upper Mississippi River in 1673 along with the French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette. They were the first people of European descent to explore the river’s upper reaches; the Spaniard Hernando de Soto had explored the lower Mississippi in 1541.
Louis Jolliet, Louis Jolliet Louis Jolliet (1645-1700) was a Canadian explorer, musician, hydrographer, fur trader, and teacher. The most famous exploit in the care… Mississippi (river Us), MISSISSIPPI RIVER. One of the major rivers of North America, the Mississippi River has been a focal point in American history, commerce, agriculture,…
Louis Jolliet was a French-Canadian explorer and mapmaker. He and Father Jacques Marquette were the first European men to explore the upper Mississippi River in North America.
"Louis Jolliet" published on by null. (1645–1700),Canadian explorer of the Mississippi River. Sixteenth-and early-seventeenth-century European maps of North America showed an erroneous drainage divide separating the Great Lakes basin from the Gulf of Mexico.
