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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]
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 ...
In Canadian folklore, Mussie is a creature said to live in Muskrat Lake in the Canadian province of Ontario.It is variously described, for example, as a walrus or as a three-eyed Loch Ness Monster-like creature.The legend of Mussie likely began around 1916, though legend claims that Canadian pioneer Samuel de Champlain wrote about it in the early seventeenth century.
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
Their descendants are known as Muskrat French. Around the same time, the Sandy Creek Settlement was founded near this by Joseph Porlier Benec. [ 5 ] The United States acquired this area, which had been considered part of British Canadian territory after the Treaty of Paris (1783) settling the American Revolutionary War.
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 ...
Noted as a brilliant orator and a formidable strategist, Kondiaronk led the pro-French Petun and Huron of Michilimackinac against their traditional Iroquois enemies. Kondiaronk realized the only way to establish security was to maintain a war between their enemies, the Iroquois, and the French in an attempt to keep the Iroquois occupied and the ...