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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.
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. It is believed that Étienne Brûlé was the first European to see Lake Ontario in 1615, from a high point of land beside the Humber.
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.
Nicollet Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, bears his name. There is a high school named after him in Nicolet, Quebec. L'École Secondaire Jean-Nicolet opened in 1968. A Liberty ship was launched and named after Jean Nicolet in 1943. [14]
The coat of arms of Etobicoke is the heraldic achievement representing the former city of Etobicoke in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is set to be removed after being criticized for being racist and stereotypical. Other criticism includes the fact that tradition is aligned under the Indigenous man and so, has a certain narrative.
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.
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
1610 – Étienne Brûlé is the first European to see the Chaudière Falls. 1613 – Samuel de Champlain passes the site of the future Ottawa on June 4. 1613 to 1663 – A 1613 royal charter from the King of France evolved to give successive groups monopolies to invest in the vast territory of New France, control the fur trade and manage colonization.