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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.
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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.
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.
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Brule told Champlain that he had traveled widely through North America. With another French interpreter named Grenolle, he had followed the north shore of what they called the "mer douce, "the sweetwater sea today's Lake Huron--as far as the great rapids of Sault Ste. Marie, where the waters of another grand lac (Lake Superior) entered Lake Huron."
Shortly after founding a permanent settlement at Quebec City in 1608, Samuel de Champlain sought to ally himself with the local native peoples or First Nations. He decided to send French boys to live among them to learn their languages in order to serve as interpreters, in the hope of persuading the natives to trade with the French rather than with the Dutch, who were active along the Hudson ...