Heroine of the Strait

Notes for Antoine Cuillerier-Leveille:Antoine was born March 22, 1696/97to Denissen, Antoine followed his widowed and remarried mother to Detroit. She had remarried to Pierre Picote de Bellestre, a Fre...

"The Benefits of a Good Wife When the British arrived at Detroit and in the Great Lakes in 1760, after their victory in the French and Indian War (Seven Years War), they had to fit themselves into a Fr...

That same year, the merchant James Sterling arrived in Detroit to engage in the Indian trade. He had left a profitable business at Niagara and expected to enjoy immediate success at Detroit, but soon m...

Chief Pontiac (1720 - April 20, 1769) was a great leader of the Ottawa Indian tribe. He organized his and other tribes in the Great Lakes area to fight the British, in what is known as Pontiac's War (1...