[148] On the Duluth building, at the southeast corner of Place d'Armes Square, is a tablet:
"Here lived, in 1675, Daniel de Grésolon, Sieur Duluth, one of the explorers of the Upper Mississippi, after whom the city of Duluth was named." This was a rented house.
Duluth also lived on St. Paul Street South Side. The house was bought by de Vaudreuil when constructing his château hard by.
[149] 1640, June 28th, Hudson's Bay discovered by land by Albanel, a Jesuit, afterward stationed at Montreal. 1647, July 16th, St. Johns was discovered by de Quen, a Jesuit, afterwards stationed at Montreal. 1669, Dollier de Casson and de Galinée, both Sulpicians of Montreal, take possession of lands on Lake Erie for Louis XIV. 1673, June 17th, the northern part of the Mississippi discovered by Joliet and Marquette, a Jesuit, who started from Montreal. 1678, Niagara Falls described by Hennepin, a Recollect, who started from Montreal.
[150] Treaty of Ryswick. This ended the great Anglo-French struggles known as King William's War, which started in 1685.
CHAPTER XXXI
1688-1698
SOCIAL, CIVIL AND RELIGIOUS PROGRESS