René Bréhant de Galinée
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René Bréhant de Galinée (1645 – 1678) was a member of the Society of Saint-Sulpice (Sulpician Order) at Montreal and an explorer and missionary to the Native Americans. In 1670, he and François Dollier de Casson were the first Europeans to make a recorded transit of the Detroit River. His map of the trip demonstrated that the Great Lakes were all connected.
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- Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography
- American Journeys
- Biography of François Dollier de Casson at Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
- Biography of René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle at Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
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