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Voyageurs also served as guides for explorers such as Pierre La Vérendrye. The majority of these canoe men were French Canadian; they were usually from Island of Montreal or seigneuries and parishes along or near the Saint Lawrence River; many others were from France. Voyageurs were mostly illiterate and therefore did not leave many written ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 January 2025. Italian supercentenarian (1899–2017) Emma Morano Dame Grand Cross OMRI Morano in 1943 Born Emma Martina Luigia Morano (1899-11-29) 29 November 1899 Civiasco, Vercelli, Kingdom of Italy Died (2017-04-15) 15 April 2017 (aged 117 years, 137 days) Verbania, Verbano-Cusio-Ossola, Italy ...
After forty years as a reenactment group, it is still a strong volunteer group (over 45 members) with Fort William Historic park, Thunder Bay, Ontario, it is a family orientated historical re-enactment group that portrays early 1800s military, voyageur militia and family life.
As of Thursday, Emma Morano is the only person on Earth who was born in the 1800s. She credits her longevity to her very bizarre diet.
They bore witness to some of the city's earliest days, when it was still the borough of Green Bay, and would ultimately become victims of the subsequent 170 years of growth and expansion.
Pierre Antoine and Paul Mallet, brothers and French Canadian voyageurs, were the first Europeans known to have crossed the Great Plains from east to west. They first journeyed to Santa Fe, New Mexico from Kaskaskia, Illinois in 1739.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 23 January 2025. Leif Erikson (c. 970 – c. 1020) was a famous Norse explorer who is credited for being the first European to set foot on American soil. Explorers are listed below with their common names, countries of origin (modern and former), centuries of activity and main areas of exploration. Marco ...
Alexis Bidagan dit St-Martin (April 8, 1802 [a] – June 24, 1880) was a Canadian voyageur who is known for his part in experiments on digestion in humans, conducted on him by the American Army physician William Beaumont between 1822 and 1833. St-Martin was shot in a near-fatal accident in 1822.