Hennepin (middle in canoe)accompanied the French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier (Sieur de La Salle) on a trip through New France.

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Father Louis Hennepin (middle person in canoe) was a Catholic priest and a Franciscan missionary who was also an explorer of the interior of North America. Captured by the soldiers of Louis XIV of France, the 39-year-old Hennepin was sent to the New World to accompany the French explorer Rene Robert Cavelier (Sieur de La Salle) on a trip through the western part of New France–that is, from Canada, along the Great Lakes. On this voyage they saw and reported back to France Niagara Falls and Saint Anthony Falls, the only falls on the Mississippi. This illustration dates to 1902.

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