1. History About Louis Joliet
By: Jessica Jones and Hailey Snyder

2. Explorer growing up Louis Joliet was born in Quebec in New France.
When he was seven his father died and his mother remarried a successful merchant.
When he as he was seventeen he entered Roman Catholic Society of Jesus.
After three years, Jolliet left the Jesuits and began following in the footsteps of his older brother.

3. FOOTSTEPS His brother was a successful trader and voyageur.
Louise Joliet was a fur trader.
The things he traded were guns, knives, and other items.
After that he started to study to be in the priesthood.
But shortly dropped out of the priesthood at twenty two.

4. How he became a explorer
Louis, would probably have been to be selected to lead the expedition to the Mississippi river.
Louis acclaim as an explorer was diminished somewhat when his records and maps were destroyed at the end of his trip.
Also, his canoe got wrecked with the other things.
Although a year later he produced a map from memory.

5. The End Of the road
The day he died was a beautiful day in May, he died on the 22 the year of 1700
The island he died on was Anicosti.
He really did die but no one found his body!

6. Fun Facts Louis Joliet went with his family to be a fur trader.
Louis became a fur trader because he wanted to do what his family was doing.

7. The End we hope you enjoyed it!! ;]