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The earliest known inhabitants of the Ontario region included the Iroquoian-speaking agricultural Huron, Tionontati, and Erie peoples of the south and the Algonquian-speaking hunting Algonquin, Ojibwa, and Cree peoples of the north. The French explorer Étienne Brûlé was the first known European to travel among them, during an expedition to the Ottawa River in 1610–11. He was soon followed by Samuel de Champlain and other French explorers, fur traders, and missionaries. The southern tribes were dispersed by members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (Iroquois Confederacy), also composed of Iroquoian-speaking peoples, in 1648–49. In 1673 France established Fort Frontenac (present-day Kingston) to ...(100 of 7297 words)