{"id":420,"date":"2011-04-07T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/nouvelle-france\/"},"modified":"2012-06-01T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T17:52:41","slug":"pays-den-haut-and-louisiana","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/population\/pays-den-haut-and-louisiana\/","title":{"rendered":"Pays d&#8217;en Haut and Louisiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201c<em>Pays d\u2019en Haut<\/em>\u201d or Upper Country: under the French Regime, this name described the basin of the Great Lakes, upriver from the St. Lawrence, where fur traders, missionaries, and military men ventured beginning in the early seventeenth century. Beyond the 1660s, their visits became more regular. Outposts multiplied, in several cases giving birth to flourishing settlements. That of Detroit, between Lakes Erie and Huron, became something of a capital for the region.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width:500px\"><a class=\"popup-gallery-opener group-4_5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/files\/2011\/06\/New_France_4_5_Map-\u00c9tienne-Br\u00fbl\u00e9.jpg\" data-title=\"<strong>Itineraries of \u00c9tienne Br\u00fbl\u00e9, first Frenchman to journey into the \u201cPays d\u2019en Haut\u201d or Upper Country<\/strong><br \/><div class='credit'> \u00a9 Canadian Museum of Civilization, map by Andr\u00e9e H\u00e9roux<\/div>\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1406\" src=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/files\/2011\/06\/New_France_4_5_Map-\u00c9tienne-Br\u00fbl\u00e9-500x331.jpg\" alt=\"Itineraries of \u00c9tienne Br\u00fbl\u00e9, first Frenchman to journey into the \u201cPays d\u2019en Haut\u201d or Upper Country\" width=\"500\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/files\/2011\/06\/New_France_4_5_Map-\u00c9tienne-Br\u00fbl\u00e9-500x331.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/files\/2011\/06\/New_France_4_5_Map-\u00c9tienne-Br\u00fbl\u00e9-225x149.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/files\/2011\/06\/New_France_4_5_Map-\u00c9tienne-Br\u00fbl\u00e9.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span>Itineraries of \u00c9tienne Br\u00fbl\u00e9, first Frenchman to journey into the \u201cPays d\u2019en Haut\u201d or Upper Country<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thanks to the goodwill of the Aboriginal peoples who represented a clear majority in the continent\u2019s interior, the French soon took the stride between the Great Lakes basin and the Mississippi valley. In 1682, the explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle reached the mouth of this great river and claimed his discoveries on behalf of the French king. Thus, in honour of Louis XIV, this immense territory received the name of \u201c<em>Louisiane<\/em>\u201d, Louisiana. During the following century, Louisiana would in turn become a settler colony \u2013 less populous than Canada, to be sure, but no less essential to New France as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>In the \u201c<em>Pays des Illinois<\/em>\u201d or Illinois Country, named after a powerful Aboriginal confederacy and centred on the southeast of the state which still bears its name, the French drew profit from the river network and the richness of the soil to develop a thriving agriculture. This territory, which passed from the authority of Canadian officials to that of their counterparts in Louisiana in 1717, quickly became a vital breadbasket for all of Lower Louisiana. These are the colonial space, rather underappreciated in comparison with the St. Lawrence valley, that readers will discover in this upcoming article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cPays d\u2019en Haut\u201d or Upper Country: under the French Regime, this name described the basin of the Great Lakes, upriver from the St. Lawrence, where fur traders, missionaries, and military men ventured beginning in the early seventeenth century. Beyond the 1660s, their visits became more regular. Outposts multiplied, in several cases giving birth to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":307,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":40,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3358,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/420\/revisions\/3358"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.historymuseum.ca\/virtual-museum-of-new-france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}