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This Day in Minnesota History

August 26, 1731

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Frenchman Pierre La Verendrye and his voyageurs land at Grand Portage to begin a fur-trading expedition into the region west of the Great Lakes. La Verendrye eventually establishes a trading post, Fort St. Charles, on Lake of the Woods.

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