Claude Dablon (February 1618 – May 3, 1697) was a Jesuit missionary, born in Dieppe, France.
At the age of twenty-one he entered the Society of Jesus, and after his course of studies and teaching in France, arrived in Canada in 1655.
The expedition was unsuccessful and is only chronicled as another abortive attempt to find the famous Northwest Passage.
[3] In 1668 Dablon was on Lake Superior with Claude-Jean Allouez and Jacques Marquette,[4] and he was the first to inform the world of the rich copper mines of that region, which later became so valuable to the Canadian economy.
[5] His contributions to the "Relations" are historically valuable with his descriptions of places and people and his narration of events.