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Title Fruits of perseverance [electronic resource] : the French presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701-1815 / Guillaume Teasdale.
Publication Info. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2018]

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Description xiv, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Series McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ; 4.
eBook Academic Collection - North America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 141-220).
Contents Early land occupation -- Seigneurial tenure and landholders -- Trespassers, aboriginal deeds, and taxation -- Contested public property rights -- Private landowners -- French orchards -- Divided by the border.
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Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject French -- Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.) -- History -- 18th century.
French Americans -- Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.) -- History -- 18th century.
French-Canadians -- Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.) -- History -- 18th century.
Detroit River Valley (Mich. and Ont.) -- History -- 18th century.
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Related To Online version: Teasdale, Guillaume. Fruits of perseverance. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018 0773555757 9780773555761 (OCoLC)1080219908
Teasdale, Guillaume, author. Fruits of perseverance.: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. McGill-Queen's French Atlantic worlds series ; (CaOONL)20189046465
ISBN 0773555013 (paperback)
9780773555013 (paperback)
9780773555006 (hardcover)
0773555005 (hardcover)
9780773555761 (EPUB)
9780773555754 (ePDF)
OCLC # sseb_ssj0002248371
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