Simon François Daumont de Saint-Lusson

Simon François Daumont de Saint-Lusson († 1677) was a officer troops of the King of France, Louis XIV. It arrives in News-France in company of the investigating police chief Gaudais-Dupont around 1663.

Its mission

The September 3rd 1670, it is named police chief subdelegated by the intendant Jean Talon. Its mission is:

the research of the mine of copper to the country of Outaouas, Pierced-nose Indians, Illinois, and other nations discovered and to discover in Septentrional America on the side of the Higher lake or Soft sea .

France then undertakes an exploration, based on the accounts of the first travellers and observations provided by the explorers Jean Nicolet, Rene Robert Cavelier of the Room, Rene de Bréhant de Galinée, François Dollier de Casson, Louis Jolliet and Jacques Marquette. Daumont de Saint-Lusson, in addition to discovering the copper mine of the Higher Lake, will have to discover the passage of the North-West, while the Room is charged to move towards the South Sea. It is about the French response to the expansion of the English towards the Hudson Bay.

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