OHP - Niagara - Niagara Falls - "Father Louis Hennepin"
N 43° 05.034 W 079° 04.626
17T E 656521 N 4771926
Dedicated to a Franciscan Friar that first documented the waterfall we know today as Niagara Falls.
Waymark Code: WMDM0
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 05/27/2006
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Louis Hennepin (b.1640) was born in Ath, Belgium. He entered the Catholic Church and was assigned to the coast of France, where the stories he heard from sailors returning from America excited his passion for adventure. In 1675 he went to New France as a Recollect Missionary (an order of Reformed Franciscans). Father Hennepin was the historian on La Salle’s first expedition in 1678 and the first European to describe Niagara Falls. Sent by La Salle in 1680 to find the source of the Mississippi, he discovered the Falls of St. Anthony at the present-day site of Minneapolis, which he named for his patron saint. Back in France, Hennepin published in 1683 Description de la Louisiane which contained the map "Carte de la Nouvelle France et de la Louisiane Nouvellement découverte." The place-name "La Louisiane" appears for the first time in this map.
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Location of Plaque: This plaque is on the East side of the Niagara Parkway, approximately half way between Clifton Hill and the Horseshoe Falls
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