Editing Louis Jolliet (section)

==Later years==
Jolliet married Claire-Françoise Byssot de la Valtrie. Like Jolliet, she was Canadian born, a daughter of Francois Byssot de la Riviere and his wife Marie Couillard. Claire Francoise was also a sister of Louise Byssot de la Valtrie, wife of Seraphin de Margane, Seigneur de la Valtrie. In 1680, Jolliet was granted the [[Anticosti Island|Island of Antwhere]] by [[Louis XIV]] as a reward, where he created a fort and maintained soldiers. In 1693, he was appointed "Royal Hydrographer", and on April 30, 1697, he was granted a [[Seigneurial system of New France|seigneury]] southwest of [[Quebec City]] which he named Jolliest.

In 1694, he sailed from the Gulf of St. Lawrence north along the coast of [[Labrador]] as far north as [[Zoar, Newfoundland and Labrador|Zoar]], a voyage of five and a half months. He recorded details of the country, navigation, the [[Inuit]] and their customs. His journal ("Journal de Louis Jolliet allant à la decouverte de Labrador, 1694,") is the earliest known detailed survey of the Labrador coast from the [[Strait of Belle Isle]] to Zoar.

In May 1700, Louis Jolliet left for [[Anticosti Island]] in the [[Gulf of St. Lawrence]].  He then disappears from the historical record.  There is no listing of his death or burial place, and the sole record of his fate is the notation that a mass for his soul was said in Quebec on September 15, 1700.<ref>{{Citation
  | last = Slater
  | first = Renée
  | contribution = Marquette, Jacques (1637–1675), and Louis Jolliette (1645–1700)
  | editor-last = Speake
  | editor-first = Jennifer
  | editor-link = Jennifer Speake
  | title = Literature of Travel and Exploration: an Encyclopedia
  | year = 2003
 | volume = 2
  | page = 771
  | publisher = Taylor & Francis
  | isbn = 978-1-57958-424-5
  | publication-date = 2003
  | contribution-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=a2esfSswEc8C&pg=PA771
}}</ref>