2) Menominee, river, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Menominee, river, United States, river, 118 mi (190 km) long, formed by the union of the Brule and the Michigamme rivers above Iron Mountain, W Upper Peninsula, N...

3) Sault Sainte Marie, city, United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...lift to the level of Lake Superior. The region was first explored (1615) by Etienne Brule, and Father Jacques Marquette established a Jesuit mission there in 1668....

4) Great Lakes. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...level. 2French traders were the first Europeans to see any of the Great Lakes; Etienne Brule visited Lake Huron c.1612. In 1614, Brule and French explorer Samuel...

5) Ontario, Lake. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...at state and provincial parks. The first European to see (1615) Lake Ontario was Etienne Brule, the French explorer; later that year Samuel de Champlain visited it....

6) Superior, Lake. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...islands; the U.S. Apostle Islands and Pictured Rocks national lakeshores are there. Etienne Brule, the French explorer, probably visited the lake in 1616; Pierre...

7) Champlain, Samuel de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...reached only Allumette Island in the Ottawa River that year, but in 1615 he went with Etienne Brule and a party of Huron to Georgian Bay on Lake Huron, returning...

8) Ontario, province, Canada. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...and Iroquoian (Iroquois, Huron, Petun, Neutral, Erie, and Susquehannock) tribes. Etienne Brule explored southern Ontario in 1610-12. Henry Hudson sailed into Hudson...

9) Michigan. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Native American groups were living in Michigan when the French explorer Etienne Brule landed at the narrows of Sault Ste. Marie in 1618, probably the first European...