Jacques de Noyon^[1]

1668 - 1745  (77 years)

• Name	Jacques de Noyon
  Born	12 Feb 1668	Trois-Rivières, St. Maurice, Quebec, Canada
  Christened	12 Feb 1668	Trois-Rivières, St. Maurice, Quebec, Canada
  Gender	Male
  AFN	NMDV-RR
  Died	12 May 1745	Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada
  Buried	12 May 1745	Ste. Famille, Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada
  Person ID	I236904	Smoky Mountain Ancestral Quest
  Last Modified	25 Apr 2012

  
  

  Father	Jean de Noyon,   b. 30 Aug 1635, St. Pierre le Chastel, Rouen, Seine Maritime, France ,   d. 10 Mar 1692, Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada  (Age 56 years)
  Mother	Marie Chauvin,   b. 8 Sep 1650, Trois-Rivières, St. Maurice, Quebec, Canada ,   d. 31 Mar 1723, Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada  (Age 72 years)
  Married	20 Jul 1665	Trois-Rivières, St. Maurice, Quebec, Canada
  Family ID	F90854	Group Sheet

  
  

• Event Map		Died - 12 May 1745 - Boucherville, Chambly County, Quebec, Canada  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Noyon From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.

  
  

• Sources

  [S90] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).