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Auteur(s) : Teasdale, Guillaume
Titre(s) : Fruits of perseverance [Texte imprimé] : the French presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701-1815 / Guillaume Teasdale
Publication : Montreal & Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIV-220 p.) : ill., cartes ; 23 cm
Collection : McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ; 4
Lien à la collection : McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. [191]-210. Index
"Founded by French military entrepreneur Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac in 1701,
colonial Detroit was occupied by thousands of French settlers who established deep
roots on both sides of the river. The city's unmistakable French past, however, has
been long neglected in the historiography of New France and French North America.
Exploring the French colonial presence in Detroit, from its establishment to its dissolution
in the early nineteenth century, Fruits of Perseverance explains how a society similar
to the rural settlements of the St Lawrence valley developed in an isolated place
and how it survived well beyond the fall of New France. As Guillaume Teasdale describes,
between the 1730s and 1750s, French authorities played a significant role in promoting
land occupation along the Detroit River by encouraging settlers to plant orchards
and build farms and windmills. After New France's defeat in 1763, these settlers found
themselves living under the British flag in an Aboriginal world shortly before the
newly independent United States began its expansion west. Fruits of Perseverance offers
a window into the development of a French community in the borderlands of New France,
whose heritage is still celebrated today by tens of thousands of residents of southwest
Ontario and southeast Michigan."
Sujet(s) : Lamothe-Cadillac, Antoine de (1658-1730)
Américains d'origine française -- Grands lacs américains (région) -- 18e siècle
Géographie humaine -- Grands lacs américains (région) -- 18e siècle
Sujet(s) géographique(s) :
Grands Lacs Américains
Classement géographique :
Amérique > États-Unis > Michigan
Amérique > Canada > Ontario
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0773555013. - ISBN 9780773555013. - ISBN 978-0-7735-5500-6 (br.) : 29.95 USD.
- ISBN 0773555005. - ISBN 9780773555761 (erroné). - ISBN 9780773555754 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb46599918r
Notice n° :
FRBNF46599918
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Early land occupation ; Seigneurial tenure and landholders ; Trespassers, aboriginal
deeds, and taxation ; Contested public property rights ; Private landowners ; French
orchards ; Divided by the border.
