Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . h government the territory of Illinois was at first underthe administration of the governor of Canada, the seat of government being atQuebec. The region being so very remote and the population so exceedinglysparce, little if any civil authority was exercised over the people. As the Illi-nois country had been settled by Frenchmen coming through Canada, who hadleft many relatives there, and as they had always traded there, the affectionsof the old French settlers still remained with Canada; but in
Peoria city and county, Illinois; a record of settlement, organization, progress and achievement . h government the territory of Illinois was at first underthe administration of the governor of Canada, the seat of government being atQuebec. The region being so very remote and the population so exceedinglysparce, little if any civil authority was exercised over the people. As the Illi-nois country had been settled by Frenchmen coming through Canada, who hadleft many relatives there, and as they had always traded there, the affectionsof the old French settlers still remained with Canada; but in consequence ofLa Salles discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi and of his taking posses-sion, in the name of his king, of all the countries drained by it, the people ofFrance now began to come into the Mississippi valley by way of the Gulf, asLa Salle had foreseen and planned. As early as the year 1700, they had pene-trated as far north as the River Maramac, not more than twenty miles southfrom St. Louis, and had there begun the smelting of lead with which that regionwas supposed to \ IKW OK A IEdlUA EESIUKXCE STREET
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