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The man generally credited with the European "discovery" of the Great Lakes is Étienne Brûlé (1592?-1632), a French scout for the explorer Samuel de Champlain (1567?-1635). Brûlé reached Georgian Bay on Lake Huron around 1615, and went on to see Lake Ontario and the Susquehanna River. http://www.great-lakes.net/teach/chat/answers/092501_whodiscovered.html
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'This is the order in which the Great Lakes were discovered by the French explorers: Huron in 1615, by Le Caron, the Recollect friar, and by Champlain, one of the greatest navigators in New France; Ontario, during the same year, by Champlain; Superior, about 1629, by Etienne Brule; Michigan, in 1634, by Jean Nicolet; Erie, probably by Joliet, in 1669. It seems somewhat remarkable, from the positions of the lakes, that Erie should have been the last of the five to come under the dominion of the white men. The reason is this. It lay deep in the recesses of a hostile country, guarded by the "Romans of the West," the Iroquois or Five Nations. From Montreal the course of the French missionaries and traders westward was up the Ottawa river, the route to the upper lakes which was followed by the Hurons.' Discovery: http://www.halinet.on.ca/greatlakes/documents/hgl/default.asp?ID=c006
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I grew up in Minnesota and discovered Lake Superior around 1979.
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Etienne Brule and Samuel de Champlain
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