John DuLong explores the history and influence of these early French Canadians and traces the successive nineteenth- and twentieth-century waves of migration fr

As the first European settlers in Michigan, the French Canadians left an indelible mark on the place names and early settlement patterns of the Great Lakes Stat

On June 2, 1763, the Ojibwe captured Michigan's Fort Michilimackinac from the British, creating a crisis among the Native people of the region and effectively h