Pierre-Charles Le Sueur

Pierre-Charles Le Sueur (c.1657 – 17 July 1704 at Havana, Cuba) was a French fur trader and explorer in North America.

Le Sueur came to Canada with the Jesuits to their mission at Sault Ste Marie, but very soon he turned himself to fur trade and became coureur des bois. In 1700, he was with the group that ascended the Great Lakes and struck the Mississippi River in Minnesota. He went upstream as far as the Falls of St. Anthony. The next year he went to St. Peter, Minnesota on 19 September and continued up it to the Blue Earth River, where he built Fort L’Huillier (Named for Farmer-general Alexandre L’Huillier).