Marquette, and Allouez was assigned to continue Marquette's work among the Illinois. In February 1676, on his way to Lake Michigan, his companions rigged a sail on the canoe to sail over the ice. By March he was at Whitefish Bay and reached Kaskaskia by the end of the month. He continued Marquette's evangelizing of the Indians until his death in 1689, near what is today Niles, Michigan just north of South Bend, Indiana. He is buried in Niles. A good portion of Father Allouez's written work from the time has been preserved. It provides insight into the missions of the time and provides a record that is extensive and important of the Catholic Church in mid-America. It also contains the first documented accounts of the Illinois Indians. He is reputed to have baptized around 10,000 neophytes. Legacy The village of Allouez, Wisconsin, near Green Bay Allouez Trail on Mackinac Island in Northern Michigan Claude Allouez Bridge over the Fox River in De Pere, Wisconsin Allouez Bay near the mouth of the St. Louis River in Superior, Wisconsin Allouez neighborhood of Superior, Wisconsin, situated on Allouez Bay Allouez Township in Keweenaw County, Michigan The unincorporated community of Allouez in Allouez Township, Michigan Allouez Amber Ale by Earth Rider Brewery in Superior, WI Father Allouez School in Allouez, WI Notes References Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1967. External links 1622 births 1689 deaths People from Haute-Loire 17th-century French Jesuits Jesuit missionaries in New France Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada French Roman Catholic missionaries French explorers People of pre-statehood Michigan People of pre-statehood Wisconsin Burials in Quebec