Everything about Jacques De Noyon totally explained
Jacques de Noyon (
1668 –
1745) was a
French Canadian explorer and
coureur des bois. He is the first known European to visit the
Boundary Waters region west of
Lake Superior.
Jacques de Noyon was born on
February 12,
1668, in
Trois-Rivières,
New France. His family moved to
Boucherville not long after.
In
1688, de Noyon and three others traveled from the
Montreal area to
Fort Caministigoyan on
Lake Superior, located at present-day
Thunder Bay, Ontario. From there they traveled inland up the
Kaministiquia River. His group followed the Indigenous canoe route over the
Laurentian Divide, past the present-day site of
Atikokan, Ontario, through what is now
Quetico Provincial Park and
Voyageurs National Park,
Minnesota. He built a fort, established ties to the local
Assiniboine people, and spent the winter on the shore of
Rainy Lake. There is some question as to whether de Noyon in fact made it as far as
Lake of the Woods or not. The following summer de Noyon returned to Lake Superior, perhaps along what is now the
United States-
Canada border and includes Quetico Provincial Park, the
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness,
La Verendrye Provincial Park, and
Grand Portage National Monument.
English-
French animosity prevented Europeans from returning to the area west of Lake Superior for a number of years. In the
1730s La Vérendrye re-visited this
Boundary Waters region, perhaps with assistance from the knowledge gained by de Noyon's travels over 40 years before. The region would become an important part of the North American
fur trade, connecting the
Great Lakes to the far northwestern interior of
Manitoba,
Saskatchewan, and beyond.
Jacques de Noyon continued to travel throughout
New France and
New England as a trader and
coureur des bois. He died
1745-05-12 in Boucherville.
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