Vieau Elementary School
Vieau is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Jacques Vieau (1757–1852), French-Canadian fur trader and settler * Shane Vieau Shane Vieau is a Canadian set decorator best known for his work on the 2017 film, ''The Shape of Water'', for which he won an Academy Award for Best Production Design, with production designer, Paul Denham Austerberry and set decorator Jeff Mel ..., Canadian set decorator {{Short pages monitor ...
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Jacques Vieau
Jacques Le Vieux, dit Vieau (or Vieaux) (May 5, 1757 – July 1, 1852) was a French-Canadian fur trader and the first permanent white settler in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was born near Montreal, Quebec, Canada and died in Howard, Wisconsin. Biography In , Vieau came to Green Bay, where he married Angelique Roy that same year. She was the granddaughter of Potawatomi Indian chief Anaugesa. They had at least twelve children together. In 1795, Vieau settled at Jambo Creek in Manitowoc County. While employed by the North West Company, Vieau established a fur trading post in the area that would become Milwaukee in 1795, along with outposts at Kewaunee, Manitowoc, and Sheboygan. His Milwaukee cabin was built on top of a bluff overlooking the Menomonee Valley and became his winter residence away from Green Bay. A historical monument marks this location in Mitchell Park as the first house in Milwaukee. In 1818, Vieau hired another French-Canadian named Solomon Juneau, who late ...
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