Bonjour! The French settle Michigan.(first settlers in early 1600s) Michigan History for Kids Magazine (9/22/2001)
...first Frenchman to reach the Great Lakes was Samuel de Champlain. In 1622, Etienne Brule, another French explorer, was the first European to visit Lake Superior. Brule and early Frenchmen explored the Great Lakes looking for a shortcut to China...

Husky oarsmen beat odds: Voyageurs braved blackflies, bad food.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service (7/30/2001)
...waves kick up quickly. From there, they paddled down the French River to Georgian Bay in the north of Lake Huron. Etienne Brule was the first European to discover this route in 1610. And since then it grew to become Canada's first national...

Lake Huron: the sweetwater sea.(Special Section: The Great Lakes)(includes related resource information) Field & Stream (West ed.) (5/1/1996)
...Lakes seen by white explorers when, in 1610, Samuel de Champlain sent his eighteen-year-old illiterate nephew, Etienne Brule, from Montreal up the Ottawa River to Lake Nipissing, then down the French River to Georgian Bay. Five years later...

Toronto: Patricia Cleveland-Peck visits a Canadian city that looks to the future yet has an intriguing past.(ANOTHER COUNTRY) History Today (4/1/2007)
...seventeenth century, Huron, Seneca and Mississauga peoples used the area for hunting and fishing. The French fur trader Etienne Brule attempted to make allies of the Huron as protection from rival tribes but by the time the French established their...

Traces of Cadillac linger in Canada's Lachine.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service (7/30/2001)
...they've heard about that great French explorer around here. Also Cartier. And LaSalle. And even that rascal Etienne Brule. But mention Cadillac, the explorer not the automobile, and that brings a quizzical look, a furrowed brow. "Cadillac...

Small boat, big pleasure: Georgian Clipper offers passengers an intimate view.(Knight Ridder Newspapers) Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service (7/31/2000)
...between those islands." Almost 400 years ago, Samuel de Champlain, led by an adventurous teen-aged rascal named Etienne Brule, canoed out of that very channel to see Lake Huron for the first time. Champlain was an aristocrat who could turn...

"Behold me a sojourner in the wilderness": early encounters with the Georgian Bay. (1). Michigan Historical Review (3/22/2002)
...adjoining la Mer Douce to the far west of the 1632 map suggests where his real interest lay. He had, after all, sent Etienne Brule to live with the Huron as early as 1610 in part to learn more about the continental interior. (6) Seeing this first...

Sault Ste. Marie May Hold English-Only Language Vote;Proposal Stirs Fear Among French Minority The Washington Post (11/23/1990)
...Marie's historical museum barely makes note of it, French was the first non-native language spoken here, when Etienne Brule met with Ojibwa Indians at St. Mary's River in 1622. But with an influx of other European immigrants after the...

ADMIRALS 1 WIN FROM ADVANCING CENTERS' PLAY HELPS TO GIVE HAMPTON ROADS 2-1 SERIES LEAD OVER TRENTON.(SPORTS) The Virginian Pilot (4/21/2000)
...combined with the play of additional pivots Mike Omicioli and Etienne Drapeau, propelled Hampton Roads to a 4-3 victory over the...His shoulder was injured by a check from Trenton's Eric Brule during the regular-season's final weekend, but he looked...