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The Muskrat French (French: Francophonie au Michigan; also known as the Mushrat French or Detroit River French Canadien) are a cultural group and dialect found in southeastern Michigan along the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair, the western and southern shores of Lake Erie from Monroe County, Michigan to Sandusky, Ohio, and in southwestern Ontario. [1]
French-Canadian culture in Michigan (5 P) Pages in category "French-American culture in Michigan" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
Muskrat French, an ethnic group in Michigan, the United States; Muskrat Root, a type of fragrant herb; Muskrat Scrambler, a roller coaster in New Orleans, the United States; Muskrat v. United States, a 1911 legal case concerning sale of Native American lands; Winnipesaukee Muskrats, a baseball team in New Hampshire, the United States
The Bulletin de la Société Historique Franco-américaine for 1943, one of many institution created from La Survivance. Beginning in the late 1840s, greater numbers of French Canadians began to settle in the States, at first for seasonal agricultural jobs, and then eventually brought in by horse and later train, to serve as factory workers for the large mill towns being built by the Boston ...
Pages in category "Franco-Ontarian culture" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... Muskrat French This page was last ...
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.
Muskrat skeleton Muskrat skull An adult muskrat is about 40–70 cm (16–28 in) long, half of that length being the tail, and weighs 0.6–2 kg ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 – 4 + 1 ⁄ 2 lb). [ 13 ] That is about four times the weight of the brown rat ( Rattus norvegicus ), though an adult muskrat is only slightly longer.
French culture, language, and education have been mobilized to further French imperial interests. [115] [116] [117] The concept of mission civilisatrice or 'civilizing mission' figured into France's politique indigène throughout its colonies, with its goal fluctuating between assimilation and association of colonial subjects with French ...