G uillaume T easdale . Fruits of Perseverance

Guillaume Teasdale’s book Fruits of Perseverance: The French Presence in the Detroit River Region, 1701–1815 is a detailed examination of the land policies and settlement patterns of French Detroit from its founding through the War of 1812. Based on painstaking research in American, Canadian, and French archives, Teasdale traces the migrations from the St. Lawrence River valley to this strategic spot along the waterway connecting Lake Erie to Lake Huron, arguing that the community that evolved there resembled settlement patterns the migrants had left behind. He focuses on the complicated history of land ownership and the intricacies of French, British, and American land laws. Teasdale explains that in this region the French encroached on Native land in the same way they had done earlier along the St. Lawrence valley, using “an official discourse of peace and alliance” to gain informal permission from the local tribes “even though they did not...

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