Hennepin, Louis (missionary in Eastern area of the St. Lawrence River)

Hennepin, Louis (missionary in Eastern area of the St. Lawrence River)

Little is known about Hennepin’s time in Fort Frontenac (Kingston, Ont.) Only spending two years in this location, (1676-1678) Hennepin built a mission house with his colleague, Luc Buisset, before returning to Quebec in 1678.

1676-1678: built a mission house

Person

Fort Frontenac, (Kingston, Ont.) Canada

Jean-Roch Rioux, “HENNEPIN, LOUIS,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 2, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed October 3, 2021, https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/hennepin_louis_2E.html.

1626

Ath, Belgium

1705

Unknown (possibly Rome)

Priest; Recollet; Missionary; Explorer; Historiographer; Author

French

Hennepin sailed to Quebec in 1675, where he would spend his first three years as a missionary in the eastern area of the St. Lawrence River. Hennepin went to Lake Ontario in the spring of 1676 to replace Father Léonard Duchesne at Cataracoui, (now known as Kingston, Ont). Here, he built a “mission house” that many Iroquois people inhabited. He went back to Quebec for priestly duties in 1678.

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