Note 17 — VOYAGES AND TRAVELS

Trois Rivières, at the mouth of St. Maurice River, where it empties into the St. Lawrence by three channels separated by islands, was ceded (1634) to the Jesuits, who built a fort here. See Sulte, “La Rivière des Trois Rivières,” in Royal Society of Canada Proceedings, 1901, sec. i, pp. 97–116.—Ed.