Louis Jolliet ( French pronunciation: [lwi ʒɔljɛ] ; September 21, 1645 – after May 1700) was a French-Canadian explorer known for his discoveries in North America. In 1673, Jolliet and Jacques Marquette , a Jesuit Catholic priest and missionary , were the first non-Natives to explore and map the Upper Mississippi River .
22-501: Joliet or Jolliet may refer to: People [ edit ] Louis Jolliet (1645–1700), French-Canadian explorer of North America Oscar Joliet (1878–1969), Belgian scholar-priest and Catholic Auxiliary bishop of Ghent Places in the United States [ edit ] Joliet, Illinois , a city named after Louis Jolliet, seat of Will County Joliet Correctional Center ,
44-462: A Jesuit school in Quebec as a child and focused on philosophical and religious studies, aiming for the priesthood. He also studied music, becoming a skilled harpsichordist and church organist. He received Holy Orders in 1662 but abandoned his plans to become a priest, leaving the seminary in 1667 to pursue fur trading instead. While Hernando de Soto was the first European to make official note of
66-544: A former football franchise based in Joliet, Illinois Joliet Slammers , a baseball team in based Joliet, Illinois Joliet Army Ammunition Plant , Will County, Illinois, a former United States Army arsenal Joliet Bridge , near Joliet, Montana, on the National Register of Historic Places "Joliet", a song by Andy Prieboy from the album ...Upon My Wicked Son "Joliet" Jake Blues (John Belushi), member of
88-594: A fort and maintained soldiers. In 1693, he was appointed "Royal Hydrographer", and on April 30, 1697, he was granted a seigneury southwest of Quebec City which he named Jolliest. In 1694, he sailed from the Gulf of St. Lawrence north along the coast of Labrador as far north as Zoar , a voyage of five and a half months. He recorded details of the country, navigation, the Inuit and their customs. His journal ("Journal de Louis Jolliet allant à la decouverte de Labrador, 1694,")
110-479: A prison in the city Joliet Township, Will County, Illinois Joliet, Montana , a town Joliet Township, Platte County, Nebraska Joliet, Texas , an unincorporated community Schools [ edit ] Joliet Junior College , Joliet, Illinois, a public community college Joliet Central High School , Joliet, Illinois Joliet Catholic Academy , a coed Catholic high school in Joliet, Illinois Other uses [ edit ] Joliet Chargers ,
132-717: Is along the Saint Lawrence River and Route 138 at the mouth of the Sainte-Anne-du-Nord River . Mont-Sainte-Anne , the highest skiing station in the eastern part of Canada, is located in Beaupré. It is also one of the town's major sport attractions. The area has been inhabited since the beginning of the New France colony. In the 17th century, Breton sailors, when landing on the coastal plains, reputedly exclaimed: " Oh! le beau pré " ("Oh!
154-487: Is most tangible in the Midwestern United States and Quebec, mostly through geographical names, including the cities of Joliet, Illinois ; Joliet, Montana ; and Joliette , Quebec (founded by one of Jolliet's descendants, Barthélemy Joliette ). The several variations in the spelling of the name "Jolliet" reflect spelling that occurred at times when illiteracy or poor literacy was common and spelling
176-731: Is named after the explorer, as are numerous high schools in North America. The Louis Joliet Mall in Joliet, Illinois, is named for the explorer. A cruise ship sailing out of Quebec City is also named in his honour. Jolliet appears with Jacques Marquette on a 1968 United States postage stamp honoring their exploratory voyage. Beaupr%C3%A9, Quebec Beaupré is a ville in the Canadian province of Quebec , located in La Côte-de-Beaupré Regional County Municipality . The town
198-585: Is the earliest known detailed survey of the Labrador coast from the Strait of Belle Isle to Zoar. In May 1700, Louis Jolliet left for Anticosti Island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence . He then disappears from the historical record. There is no listing of his death or burial place, and the sole record of his fate is the notation that a mass for his soul was said in Quebec on September 15, 1700. Jolliet's main legacy
220-722: The Fox River to the site now known as Portage, Wisconsin . There, they portaged a distance of slightly less than two miles through marsh and oak forest to the Wisconsin River . Europeans eventually built a trading post at that shortest convenient portage between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins. On June 17, the canoeists ventured onto the Mississippi River near present-day Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin . The Jolliet-Marquette expedition paddled along
242-620: The Ile d'Orleans , an island in the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec that was home to First Nations . Jolliet spent much time on Ile d'Orleans, so he likely began speaking Indigenous languages of the Americas at a young age. Besides French , he also learned English and Spanish. During his childhood, Quebec was the center of the French fur trade . The Natives were part of daily life in Quebec, and Jolliet grew up knowing much about them. Jolliet entered
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#1732773371473264-550: The Blues Brothers band Joliet (file system) , an extension to the ISO 9660 specification, written by Microsoft See also [ edit ] Juliet (disambiguation) Juliette (disambiguation) Joliette (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Joliet . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
286-641: The Mississippi River by discovering its southern entrance in 1541, Jolliet and Marquette were the first to locate its upper reaches, and travel most of its length, about 130 years later. De Soto had named the river Rio del Espiritu Santo, but tribes along its length called it variations of "Mississippi", meaning "Great River" in the Algonquian languages . On May 17, 1673, Jolliet and Marquette departed from St. Ignace, Michigan , with two canoes and five other voyageurs of French-Indian ancestry. The group sailed to Green Bay . They then paddled upstream (southward) on
308-559: The beautiful meadow"). The fused form of Beaupré has been in use since at least 1636 when the Beaupré Company was established. Its parish formed out of two of the oldest parishes of Quebec, Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré and Saint-Joachim. Its population in 1666 was 533 inhabitants, comparable to Quebec with 547 inhabitants. In 1928, the place was incorporated as the Parish Municipality of Notre-Dame-du-Rosaire but its name
330-473: The chief account of the journey. Jolliet married Claire-Françoise Byssot de la Valtrie. Like Jolliet, she was Canadian born, a daughter of Francois Byssot de la Riviere and his wife Marie Couillard. Claire Francoise was also a sister of Louise Byssot de la Valtrie, wife of Seraphin de Margane, Seigneur de la Valtrie. In 1680, Jolliet was granted the Island of Antwhere by Louis XIV as a reward, where he created
352-510: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joliet&oldid=1120956993 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Educational institution disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Louis Jolliet Jolliet
374-527: The location of modern-day Chicago . Father Marquette stayed at the mission of St. Francis Xavier at the southern end of Green Bay, which they reached in August. Jolliet returned to Quebec to relate the news of their discoveries. On his way through the Lachine Rapids , Jolliet's canoe overturned and his records were lost. His brief narrative, written from memory, is in essential agreement with Marquette's,
396-819: The mouth of the Illinois River , which friendly natives told them was a shorter route back to the Great Lakes. Following the Illinois river upstream, they then turned up its tributary the Des Plaines River near modern-day Joliet, Illinois . They then continued up the Des Plaines River and portaged their canoes and gear at the Chicago Portage . They then followed the Chicago River downstream until they reached Lake Michigan near
418-533: The west bank of the Mississippi until mid-July. When they passed the mouth of the Arkansas River , they became satisfied that they had established that the Mississippi flowed into the Gulf of Mexico. By this point, they had encountered natives carrying European goods and worried about a possible hostile encounter with explorers or colonists from Spain. The voyageurs then followed the Mississippi back to
440-510: Was born in 1645 in Beaupré , a French settlement near Quebec City , to Jean Jolliet and Marie D'Abancourt. When he was six years old, his father died; his mother married a successful merchant, Geoffroy Guillot dit Lavalle, until he died in 1665. Shortly after the passing of his mother's second husband, she was married to Martin Prevost until she died in 1678. Jolliet's stepfather owned land on
462-411: Was changed to Beaupré that same year in order to avoid confusion with several other namesake parishes. In 1962, the parish municipality gained town status and became Ville de Beaupré. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Beaupré had a population of 4,117 living in 1,859 of its 2,812 total private dwellings, a change of 9.7% from its 2016 population of 3,752 . With
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#1732773371473484-703: Was unstandardized. Jolliet's descendants live throughout eastern Canada and the United States. The Jolliet Squadron of cadets at the Royal Military College Saint-Jean in the Province of Quebec was named in Jolliet's honor. A street and subway station in Montreal, Quebec are named after him. The Louis Jolliet rose , developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada , was named in his honor. Joliet Junior College in Joliet, Illinois,
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