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Between 1795 and 1815, a network of Métis settlements and trading posts was established throughout what is now the US states of Michigan and to a lesser extent in Illinois and Indiana. A Metis family poses with their Red River carts in a field in western North Dakota. (1883) State Historical Society of North Dakota (A4365)
By 1838, the settlement incorporated as a village, and encompassed approximately three-quarters of a mile (1 km) . The first formal census in 1845 recorded a population of 1,510 and an area of 4 square miles (10 km 2). The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [9]
For more than 140 years, the settlement was a single community under French colonial, and later, British colonial rule. After the War of 1812, a US–UK Joint Boundary Commission finally fixed the border in 1817 between the Michigan Territory of the US and the British Province of Upper Canada to follow the river in this area. Whereas traders ...
With a land area of 6,064.73 km 2 (2,341.61 sq mi), it had a population density of 2.1/km 2 (5.4/sq mi) in 2016. [ 9 ] [ 11 ] Excluding the two Metis settlements, the MD of Bonnyville No. 87 had a population of 11,661 in 2016, [ 12 ] a change of 15.4% from its 2011 population of 10,101.
A Half-Breed Tract was a segment of land designated in the western states by the United States government in the 19th century specifically for Métis of American Indian and European or European-American ancestry, at the time commonly known as half-breeds.
Mackinac Island (/ ˈ m æ k ə n ɔː / MAK-ə-naw, locally / ˈ m æ k ə n ə / MAK-ə-nə; French: Île Mackinac; Ojibwe: Mishimikinaak ᒥᔑᒥᑭᓈᒃ; Ottawa: Michilimackinac) is an island and resort area, covering 4.35 square miles (11.3 km 2) in land area, in the U.S. state of Michigan.
Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency will pay $55 million and make changes to how it processes claims as part of a settlement reached in a lawsuit from several pandemic-era unemployment ...
DeTour Village (/ d i. t u ə r / DEE-tu-ər) is a village in Chippewa County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The population was 263 at the 2020 census.. The village is at the extreme eastern tip of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in Detour Township, at the turning point for the shipping channel connecting the St. Mary's River with Lake Huron and the Straits of Mackinac.