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Employed for some years on military and other

engineering works in Canada. In 1701 commenced a canal from Lachine to

the Little River, with the object of providing a boat channel around the

rapids. The work was abandoned, and resumed in 1717, but was again

abandoned, owing to the cost of the rock cutting. Accompanied Denonville

on his expedition against the Iroquois, in 1687.



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