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While the Muskrat French culture is associated mostly with the Detroit River region, fur trade culture, in which many Muskrat French families originate, was widespread in the Great Lakes region. Families associated with the fur trade were part of kinship networks that often had members in towns throughout the region, such as in Green Bay ...
Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Detroit (1701–1796) was a French and later British fortification established in 1701 on the north side of the Detroit River by Antoine Laumet de Lamothe Cadillac. A settlement based on the fur trade, farming and missionary work slowly developed in the area.
The Campau family of Detroit, Michigan, was established when noble French brothers Michel and Jacques Campau settled in Detroit, Michigan in 1707 and 1708, respectively. [1] [2] Jacques, Joseph Campau, and Barnabé Campau are among the Barons of Detroit, according to Richard R. Elliott, because they had "ancestral virtues most worthily perpetuated."
The French had a smaller population base and attracted fewer families. During the French and Indian War (1756–1763), the French reinforced and improved Fort Detroit (which had been constructed in 1701) along the Detroit River between 1758 and 1760. It was subject to repeated attacks by British and colonial forces combined with their Indian ...
The French-allied Indians cornered them near the head of the Detroit River and inflicted four more days of fighting. [4]: 218 By the end of the siege and pursuit, around 1,000 Fox and Mascouten men, women and children were killed (including many of the captives). The French lost 30 men, and their allies had 60 fatalities. [6]
The Frenchtown area reflected the ethnicity of its first European settlers, French Canadians who took land along the banks of the River Raisin as early as 1784. There had been other French colonial settlements closer to Detroit and on both sides of the Detroit River. Their descendants are known as Muskrat French.
Apple River (corruption of the French Rivière Pomme de Terre des Cygnes, which in turn is a translation from the Ojibwe Waabiziipinikaani-ziibi, "River abundant with swan potatoes") Argonne (from the Forest of Argonne in France) Ballou; Belle Plaine ("beautiful plain") Bellevue ("beautiful view") Benoit; Bois Brule River ("burnt wood")
Originally named Rivière-aux-Canards ("Duck River") after the river, the community residents include descendants of the French-speaking inhabitants who originally settled the Detroit River region; they came from France and Quebec in the 18th century. Later French-speaking migrants came in the 19th century from Quebec. St.