1668 - Father Jacques Marquette opened a mission post at Sault Ste Marie on the Michigan side of the rapids. It was the first non-Native American settlement in the State.
1670 - Father Claude Dablon opened the Mission of St. Ignace
at the Straits of Mackinac.
1869 - Jesuits from the Buffalo Mission came to St. Mary's Church on Cherry Street in Toledo. They opened St. John's College in 1898. 1877 - Casper Borgess, the Bishop of Detroit, gave his Cathedral, Sts. Peter and Paul, to the Jesuits provided they open a college in Detroit. Jesuits from St. Louis came to Sts. Peter and Paul's Church in Detroit and opened the "Detroit College." The University of Detroit was moved to McNichols Road in 1927. The University of Detroit High School was moved to Seven Mile Road in 1931. 1880 - Jesuits were appointed pastors of St. Mary's Church in Cleveland and St. Ignatius College was opened there in 1886. John Carroll University was incorporated in 1923 and was moved to University Heights in 1935. 1898 - The Buffalo Mission opened St. Stanislaus Novitiate in Parma, Ohio, a suburb south of Cleveland. Retreats for lay people began there in 1899. It is now called Jesuit Retreat House. 1954 - The Region of Michigan and all of Ohio except the Archdiocese of Cincinnati was separated from the Chicago Province to form the new Ohio-Michigan Region in 1954. The following year this region became the Detroit Province of the Society of Jesus. The Detroit and the Chicago Provinces continued their joint care of the Patna Mission in India, and eventually Nepal and the Delhi Region. 1959 - Colombiere College was opened in Clarkston, Michigan (northwest of Pontiac). It was the novitiate and juniorate of the Province until 1971, at which time it became a center for diverse pastoral and social ministries. 1965 - St. John's High School re-opened in Toledo. (St. John's College had closed during the Depression in 1936.) Walsh Jesuit High School opened in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, north of Akron. The two schools utilized virtually the same architectural plan. 1971 - Loyola House in Berkley, Michigan, became the novitiate for both the Detroit and the Chicago Provinces. 1980 - The Jesuit Collegian Program of the Detroit and the Chicago Provinces moved from the University of Detroit to Loyola University Chicago. 1990 - Jesuit Health Care Center was established at Colombiere Center for Jesuits of the Detroit and the Chicago Provinces. 1990 - In August of 1990, the University of Detroit and Mercy College signed an agreement to become University of Detroit Mercy. 1991 - Holy Rosary/St. John's parish in Columbus was entrusted to the Jesuits. 1993 - Loyola Academy, Detroit, was begun in the St. Francis de Sales grade school building with the collaboration of the Archdiocese of Detroit and the Detroit Province. In 1995 the Jesuits working in the Academy moved into the St. Francis de Sales Rectory and the Province assumed responsibility for the parish. The school's name was soon changed to Loyola High School.
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