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René Ménard (2 March 1605 – 4 July 1661?) was a French Jesuit missionary explorer who traveled to New France in 1641, learned the language of the Wyandot, and was soon in charge of many of the satellite missions around Sainte-Marie among the Hurons.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 29 relations: Apostle, Beaver, Beaver Wars, Black Robe, Day's journey, François de Laval, Fur trade, Georgian Bay, Iroquois, Jesuits, Keweenaw Bay, Kingdom of France, L'Anse, Michigan, Lake Superior, List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910, Médard des Groseilliers, Montreal, New France, Odawa, Ottawa River, Paris, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, St. Lawrence River, Taylor County, Wisconsin, Trois-Rivières, Wisconsin, Wyandot people.

  2. Explorers from Paris
  3. Missing person cases in Wisconsin
  4. People from pre-statehood Michigan
  5. People from pre-statehood Wisconsin

Apostle

An apostle, in its literal sense, is an emissary.

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Beaver

Beavers (genus Castor) are large, semiaquatic rodents of the Northern Hemisphere.

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Beaver Wars

The Beaver Wars (Tsianì kayonkwere), also known as the Iroquois Wars or the French and Iroquois Wars (Guerres franco-iroquoises), were a series of conflicts fought intermittently during the 17th century in North America throughout the Saint Lawrence River valley in Canada and the Great Lakes region which pitted the Iroquois against the Hurons, northern Algonquians and their French allies.

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Black Robe

Black Robe, first published in 1985, is a historical novel by Brian Moore set in New France in the 17th century. René Ménard and Black Robe are Jesuit missionaries in New France.

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Day's journey

A day's journey in pre-modern literature, including the Bible, ancient geographers and ethnographers such as Herodotus, is a measurement of distance.

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François de Laval

Francis-Xavier de Montmorency-Laval, commonly referred to as François de Laval (30 April 1623 – 6 May 1708), was a French Catholic prelate who served as Apostolic Vicar of New France from 1658 to 1674 and as Bishop of Quebec from its creation in 1674 until he retired due to poor health in 1688.

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Fur trade

The fur trade is a worldwide industry dealing in the acquisition and sale of animal fur.

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Georgian Bay

Georgian Bay (Baie Georgienne) is a large bay of Lake Huron, in the Laurentia bioregion.

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Iroquois

The Iroquois, also known as the Five Nations, and later as the Six Nations from 1722 onwards; alternatively referred to by the endonym Haudenosaunee are an Iroquoian-speaking confederacy of Native Americans and First Nations peoples in northeast North America.

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Jesuits

The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.

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Keweenaw Bay

Keweenaw Bay is an arm of Lake Superior in North America.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France is the historiographical name or umbrella term given to various political entities of France in the medieval and early modern period.

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L'Anse, Michigan

L'Anse is a village and the county seat of Baraga County, Michigan.

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Lake Superior

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world by surface areaThe Caspian Sea is the largest lake, but is saline, not freshwater.

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List of people who disappeared mysteriously: pre-1910

This is a list of people who disappeared mysteriously prior to 1910, or people whose deaths or the exact circumstances thereof are not substantiated.

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Médard des Groseilliers

Médard Chouart des Groseilliers (born 1618) was a French explorer and fur trader in Canada. René Ménard and Médard des Groseilliers are explorers of Canada.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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New France

New France (Nouvelle-France) was the territory colonized by France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Great Britain and Spain in 1763 under the Treaty of Paris.

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Odawa

The Odawa (also Ottawa or Odaawaa) are an Indigenous American people who primarily inhabit land in the Eastern Woodlands region, now in jurisdictions of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada.

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Ottawa River

The Ottawa River (Rivière des Outaouais, Algonquin: Kichi-Sìbì/Kitchissippi) is a river in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Pierre-Esprit Radisson

Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636/1640–1710) was a French coureur des bois and explorer in New France. René Ménard and Pierre-Esprit Radisson are explorers of Canada.

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Sainte-Marie among the Hurons

Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (Sainte-Marie-au-pays-des-Hurons) was a French Jesuit settlement in Huronia or Wendake, the land of the Wendat, near modern Midland, Ontario, from 1639 to 1649.

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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

Sault Ste.

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St. Lawrence River

The St.

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Taylor County, Wisconsin

Taylor County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

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Trois-Rivières

Trois-Rivières is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada, at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence River across from the city of Bécancour.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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Wyandot people

The Wyandot people (also Wyandotte, Wendat, Waⁿdát, or Huron) are Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of North America, and speakers of an Iroquoian language, Wyandot.

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See also

Explorers from Paris

Missing person cases in Wisconsin

People from pre-statehood Michigan

People from pre-statehood Wisconsin

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/René_Ménard

Also known as Father Menard, Fr Menard, Fr. Menard, Ménard, René.