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Title: The historical geography of Detroit
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Parkins, A. E. (Almon Ernest), 1879-1940 cn
Subjects: Anthropo-geography
Publisher: Lansing, Michigan Historical Commission
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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rt to seek theirliving by traveling among the Indians or trading withthose who do travel. The trade in furs will ever be associated chiefly withFrench exploration and occupation of the region aboutthe Great Lakes and along the St. Lawrence. Pur-chase, in his Pilgrimages (London, 1614), says,^ Thegreat river Ganada (St. LawTcnce) hath like an in-satiable merchant engrossed all those commodities sothat other streams are in a manner but mere ped-dlars. As previously stated, it was the desire on the partof the English to participate in the profits of the tradein furs in the Lakes region that induced Dongan tosend the first English party to the Ottawa country.Though this expedition marked the beginning of thestruggle in the trade in furs in the Detroit region, theclash of the rival French and English inteiests hadbegun already on Lake Ontario. 3S. N. Y. Col. Docs., IX, 127. 39. Ibid., V, 727. 40. Winsor, Narr. and Crit. History, IV, 163. 5 ^.dl .VI ,Ov.:- Zi HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF DETROIT
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1G955S9 HISTORICAL SETTING 35 While the Enghsh were active along the Atlanticseaboard, spreading their settlements and exploitingthe resources of sea and land, the French, aided bythe numerous waterways of the St. Lawrence System,had visited, preached to, ministered to, and tradedwith most of the Indian tribes about the Great Lakes.Though the French traders never hesitated to drive asharp bargain, their fraternal feeling toward the sav-ages and the self-sacrificing devotion of their mission-aries, won them many an Indian friend. Their suc-cess in this was so great that at the ceremonies atSault Ste. Marie in 1671, som.e foiu*tcen differentsavage nations were represented.*^ These victories ofthe French gave them no little satisfaction. Talon in1671, writing to Louis XIV, commented on the seem-ing advantage of the French as follows:*- The foreigncolonies (the English) so long settled on the sea-board already tremble with fright in view of whatHis Majesty has accomplished here in the Int

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