DETROIT BOOK PRESENTATION: Fruits of Perseverance

Detroit Historical Museum, 5401 Woodward Ave, Detroit, MI
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Guillaume Teasdale will give a presentation on his new book, Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701-1815, as part of the Detroit Metro-Area Historians' Collegium.

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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 Saint 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.

Guillaume Teasdale is assistant professor of history and director of the Detroit River Border Region Digital History Project at the University of Windsor.