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2 unusual facts about Michel Brisbois


Michel Brisbois

Built in 1815, the Michel Brisbois House served as a trading post and warehouse of the American Fur Company.

Soon turning to the fur trade, he worked out of Mackinac (1778), and in 1781 he moved his operations to Prairie du Chien where, with other French Canadian traders, he founded the first permanent white settlement.



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