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A plaque to commemorate Étienne Brûlé's discovery of the pathway to the Humber in Etienne Brule Park of Toronto, Ontario, puts his date of birth at 1595.. Brûlé, the son of Spire Bruslé and Marguerite Guérin, was born c. 1592 in Champigny-sur-Marne southeast of Paris.
Etienne Brule Park Étienne Brûlé Park is located in the Humber River valley just north of Bloor Street West in Toronto , Ontario , Canada . It is named after Étienne Brûlé , an early French explorer in the Toronto area.
In 1969, École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé was founded. It was part of the Conseil scolaire de district du Centre-Sud-Ouest during the end of the 2000s. [3] Étienne-Brûlé is currently the only public secular French-language secondary school in the North York region, [4] and the only Conseil Scolaire Viamonde school in Toronto offering the Advanced Placement program.
Mattawa elected Canada's first-ever Black mayor, Firmin Monestime, in 1963. He served until his death in 1977. [9] In April 2010, the old Mattawa hospital (visible as the red building in the adjacent image) was demolished amid controversy, since the building was a local landmark for which heritage status was considered.
Samuel de Champlain commissions Étienne Brûlé to live for a year among the Wendat (called Hurons by the French colonists), France's First Nation allies in North America.The idea is for Brûlé to learn the language and culture of the Wendat to strengthen the alliance.
He was a known friend of Samuel de Champlain and Étienne Brule, and was attracted to Canada to participate in Champlain's plan to train young French men as explorers and traders by having them live among Native Americans, at a time when the French were setting up fur trading under the Compagnie des Marchands. [1]
Canada: Language: French: Budget: $100,000: The Immortal Scoundrel (French: Étienne Brûlé gibier de potence) is a 1952 Canadian film directed by Melburn E. Turner. [2]
Conseil scolaire Viamonde is a public French first language secular school board located in Ontario, Canada. It manages public daycares, elementary, and secondary schools in the Ontario Peninsula, an area made of Southwestern Ontario, and most of the Greater Golden Horseshoe