Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and the Founding of Detroit
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2024
- The "Motor City" began as a fort covering an area approximately sixty-foot square. The "Paris of the Midwest" had humble beginnings and a remarkable founder, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. It is history that deserves to be remembered.
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#ushistory #thehistoryguy #michigan
I’m a native Detroiter, and I enjoyed this slice of Detroit’s history.
Same here
Me too!¡
I hereby declare "The History guy" to be an honorary Michigander
I've only left the state a few times, as a true mitten mutha fucker, i second this.
Mackinack lol
Here here
But he can't pronounce Mackinac
I agree!!!
Thank you from a Detroiter!
I'm happy to hear about Detroit without it being negative. Awesome history!!! Detroit, Rock City!, Motown!
And there is NOTHING like a CADILLAC ! He knew what goooddd!
Thanks for a positive story about Detroit. Just a note: When Detroit's population was nearly 2 million the metro area population was 3.5 million. Now with the city at 700,000 the metro has 5 million souls.
You must specify that is according to the voting rolls.
I knew the car brand Cadillac was named for a person but I didn't know the full history behind it. Thank you History Guy for once again educating me. History truly does deserve to be remembered.
AMEN.
Mike Ski Did you know that the predecessor to the Cadillac Automobile Company was founded by Henry Ford?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford#Career
Another car brand (now defunct) was LaSalle, named for another French explorer: Cavelier de La Salle.
There's also a city in northern Michigan named after him. Nice town, scenic and great place if you like water sports of any kind year around.
Amen.
Living in Detroit, I want to thank you for the objective history. Detroit went through some sleezie times, has a bad rap, but is beginning to flourish once again. Of course, there are big city problems. But nothing compares to the beauty that can be found in the unique architecture, the restoration boom, and the resilience of the people. And thanks for the comment regarding St. Anne's, one of the most beautiful churches in Detroit.
Dream on.
Not sure what there is to dream about, Detroit is looking really good these days. The transformation has been great
@@enigmawstudios4130 Sure buddy. If you say so.
www.wxyz.com/news/detroit-homicides-up-30-non-fatal-shootings-in-the-city-up-by-nearly-50
@@RuminatingWizard yes, the crime rate is bad. That means the progress of the city doesn't exist?
@@enigmawstudios4130 Nope, I work in Detroit. We get a least 3 murders a day. Detroit is a dump, sorry
As a resident of Windsor Ontario Canada 1/2 mile due south across the Detroit river, thanks for this history lesson for those outside Detroit and its environs. Detroit, though reduced in population from the heydays of the 50s and 60s it is today a growing vibrant and exiting city to visit and live in. God bless Detroit and all that live in her.
We love you Looney Hosers, but we're still better at hockey 😉
@@CAPDude44 Air hockey maybe. Lol
A big thank you from Michigan!
Michigan again and again! Love me some Michigan!
Motown!
Where in Michigan? I'm in Waterford
South East Michigan is the modern Detroit.
Ishpeming
From this son of Detroit, well done sir.
I’m from the south and I’ve never heard ANY of this before. I find it interesting that Detroit has a French beginning. What a leader this man was - and how much he went through to accomplish his goals. Men like this make things happen. It’s nice to know of one more such person!
"A man of his time" is appropriate. Men like this are coming under attack by people who completely disregard the realities of the time, instead choosing to steer the narrative into the focus of their modern ideologies, where it has no rational or logical place. You can't judge the past, apologize for it, change it...only remember it and apply the lessons learned to the present.. This man deserves to be remembered.
rex mundi Here here.!
Even the politicians, who did only 1 thing right, should be known on some level. Ignoring the good only changes history.
The same goes for the bad guys.
I love this channel, because he doesn't seem to sugar coat anything, and he still seems to portray a healthy perspective.
That is so true. We are being witnesses to the attempted destruction of our history. The destruction of statues is only part of it.
Cultural relativism is nobody's friend. You can absolutely judge the past and thereby use it to make the future better, as you yourself say more or less. I don't know about "deserves" but if a person is remembered then they should be remembered for everything they were and did.
@@kerrysmith1899 What do you mean “ our “ history? These so called monuments to the confederacy didn’t go up until long after reconstruction ended in Dixieland and was just another attempt to rewrite history about the glorious southern cause, how ironic. You don’t venerate traitors who tried to destroy their own country because of economic greed and bigotry.
In school as a child in Louisiana, I was taught that the correct pronunciation was Kaah-dee-ack for the person and Ka-dil-lac was the Americanization for the car.
Boy, it all comes full circle. I was born near Detroit and grew up in Michigan. I've owned two Cadillac's, been to Paris and now drive a Citroen DS.
I love the power of history to reconcile and remonstrate. Thanks, History Guy!
The Citroen DS, for me, epitomises French style
And aside from the rather agricultural-inspired engine, (under-powered but bullet proof), the DS is astonishingly innovative and beautiful. I drive mine daily.
@@bigblue6917 Well, perhaps the French style of 64 years ago... France doesn't live in 1955 anymore.
Very informative beyond how the motor vehicle got its name. Further to this, it is only the 3rd time I have heard the word "behove" used in a sentence! Recently I attended a fancy dress party wearing a bow tie and similar glasses, adopting your syntax many people immediately identified the "History Guy" persona.
Cheers from Australia.
Lol, good comment!
HISTORY!!!!! :) My history teachers were always my favorite people. :)
Me too.
I love history, but my history teachers thought they were English teachers, and their focus was on fussy term papers that took up the whole time. My English teachers seemed to be more interested in history. The English teachers seemed to have lesson plans, not so much for the history teachers. Hmm.
My US History teachers were sport coaches. They only taught History because you could not be a sports coach if you did not teach some other subject. In the 1960's we had large TV classes in the school auditorium (Ha THG you are my great TV History Teacher Today). The teachers watched the lesson on TV at the same time we did. After the class they would take 13 minutes to review what we had seen. The class was stunned when the teacher said that in the was of 1812, the US ship Constitution defeated the English ship Old Ironsides. Clear case of suicide.
@@pgtmr2713 My late father was a history teacher after he retired from the Army in the early '60s and earned a Masters. He never marked his students down for punctuation, sentence structure or misspellings. As he said many times, "I am a history teacher, not an English teacher." He was one of the most popular teachers in the school and the kids loved him. What a guy he was in many ways, especially since he spent over 3 years in combat in the Pacific during WWII. You would never know that if someone else didn't tell you, because he certainly wouldn't.
Wright Flyer That’s how my favorite history teacher was.
As a Detroit native I would like to thank you for telling our city’s history accurately and in a positive way.
I'm glad to see this comment. There are a bunch of negative suburbanites in the comments.
Maybe you could do a study of Pontiacs siege of Detroit and his amalgamation of tribes against the British.
@@marjoriekershaw1228 thanks for sharing!
Fantastic! You found another story that I was completely ignorant of. Thank you for the enlightenment. Learning seems to be out of favor with the powers that be as they prefer to pretend they know all and more if it than anyone. I find learning to be the most enjoyable of activities and I than you History Guy for making It easily accessible.
"They" only want us to know "PC history" so we can be suitably brainwashed and mind controled. Most of PC history is, if course, Orwellian, heavily censored, or just plain fictional.
The most intensely propagandized wars in US history are WWII, the Civil War and WWI, in that order. The Generals and battles are usually presented accurately. It is the politics and background stories that are turned into Orwellian lies.
Everyone please read George Orwell's "1984".
Then read "Michael Perenti's essay the Control of History".
Cadillac's Detroit - if he'd discovered Finland, we might all be driving Fjords...
R.A. Monigold, ah, well played.
😂😂😂
I knew Cadillac cars were named after an historic figure but I didn't not know much more until watching this video. Thanks.
You can see the influence of the French in Southeast Michigan to this day by looking at plat maps of Monroe County, along and near the River Raisin. Many of the properties are narrow and very deep. The French preferred these "ribbon" farms because it gave more settlers valuable access to the river while allowing them enough land to grow crops and plant fruit trees.
Michilimackinac is a tough word to pronounce. Mish•ill•ih•MAC'•ih•naw.
In a state called Michigan, the mi-chili part grated just as badly as the mac at the end.
Thanks! Beat me to it. I don't think non-natives know that its spelled both ways, but always pronounced "naw" at the end. :-)
@@michaelpfister1283 I learned in 1st grade Mackinac was the French pronunciation, and Mackinaw was native pronunciation. And only tourist or uninformed say Mackinac. Or my favorite one the spelling and pronunciation of Sault Ste. Marie.
You should hear it when visitors try pronouncing "Gratiot"
@@NorthCharlton "Dowagiac" isn't much better ;)
As always, another great presentation.. History Guy...just think....based on your follower base you are now managing the population of a small city....just food for thought
"Oh yeah, the car was named after some guy named Cadillac."
"And who was he?"
(dead silence)
45 years later...finally answered. Thanks.
I have lived in Detroit my whole life. I was an undergraduate history major. And I knew nothing about Cadillac. Thank you. Good stuff.
Absolutely heart breaking to see Detroit in its present, decrepit condition. I was born in Ann Arbor, just outside Detroit and remember the City, as we called it, always moving, seemingly having a life of its own. There was always good music to be heard, jazz, rock, folk/country, and, of course, Mowtown. Went back in '09 to help w/ my Grandma's estate and it was depressing to drive through the parts of town that used to be so alive, which are all dilapidated and in general disrepair.
It's not decrepit though.
Don't feel that way , you must not have been to Detroit for a long time. Downtown is now a destination for visitors, it boasts a strong cruise ship destination for the Great Lakes region and the sports venues welcome record crowds. On the other hand, I feel sad that the rapes and attacks on women , racial profiling and campus violence in Ann Arbor is still occuring at an alarming rate. I hope these things will change, because I love Ann Arbor !
Mackinac is the French spelling of Mackinaw. Spelled with “ac” on the end but the pronounced it “aw”. So no matter which way it is spelled it is still pronounced, Mackinaw.
Wonderful story... If this man saw the city now, I could only imagine what he would think. Meanwhile, the fort at the Straits of Mackinaw, is beautifully restored and a must see! Artifacts are wonderfully displayed.... A must see.
Born and raised in the suburbs of Detroit, thank you for making this video!! Learned so much and can't help but think if Mr Cadillac ever thought his city would look like it does today ❤️
MICHIGAN PROUD! Lobe it when you include Michigan on here! Thanks from MI! 🤘🏻🇺🇸
Lived in Detroit thru the 70-80s. Enjoyed the city and saw many places that showed French influence. Went to Fort Michinawmacinaw. Very interesting. Also have a soft spot in my heart for Cadillacs, having owned many. Thank you for the history behind the city.
Cadillac nice story my parents owned a 1970 cadillac el dorado two door with the biggest engine built at that time I'll never forget that cadillac
Slight note: The full name was Antoine Laumet "dit" (said to be) de Lamothe Cadillac,. My ancestor was stationned at Michilimakinac (Makinaw) at the same time of Cadillac and Henri de Tonty et de Paludy.
There's tons of Lamothe in the province of Québec.
Detroit is such a storied city, the History Guy could do a story every day for the next month on Detroit. While the suburbs are still going, sadly the city is living on its memory today.
"Between two rivers?" Between two lakes.
Hometown Detroiter.
That was my thought as well. The Detroit River being a strait between Lake Erie and Lake St. Clair. But also during the early settlement years, the Rouge River (though a little ways away) was important to the city as well, so I gave him that one.
@@marjoriekershaw1228 rssssßs added ß as ẞ da
My great X6 grandfather along with 2 other French Canadian voyagers were hired to deliver Cadillac`s wife and son to Fort Pontchartrain. They arrived in October of 1701. A few months after Cadillac had founded Detroit.
I attended Cadillac Junior High school in the city of Detroit. The 'spokes' of Detroit are represented by Gratiot Ave. Woodward Ave. and Grand River Avenue in Metropolitan Detroit. North, south, east & west take on strange directions. when traveling through the ares of Detroit. The city was a focal point during the wars of native Americans, England, France and Canada, in the early history of the U.S. We also have a strong history between the City of Detroit and Windsor, Ontario Canada. We don't need a stinking wall here, Mr. President!
The founder of Detroit landed in the new world literally in my back yard, that is an awesome thought
Born and raised in Detroit! Finally a positive story! Thank you!
Very interesting! And here I thought that Cadillac was just a car 😉 I have learned something new today History Guy, thanks to your research ☺
Every name has a background!
Great Dive! May I add an observation on the French presence in the area? A project took me to Leamington Ontario, Canada's most southern town not far SOUTH(!) East of Detroit 23 years ago. I recall an interview on the local CBC radio station at the time where an Historian was looking for land owners who may have old pear trees on their property. As Pear Trees are distinctive & non native, the French planted these trees radiating out from Fort Detroit as a way for those travelling overland to find the fort. Meanwhile the impact of French settlement of Fort Detroit remains on the Canadian side. French Canadians still have a significant population in the area near to the Detroit River in Ontario, but numbers have declined over the years. Perhaps the most famous example are former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin & his father (also a '60's federal cabinet minister) born in this part of Canada. So a direct connection between your story of Cadillac, the Detroit region and the Leadership of your neighbour to the (mostly) North!
We lived in that part of Michigan for years, and I appreciate the memories brought back by this presentation! I also knew the namesake of my favorite cars, but had not heard this story. Terrific!
Thanks, from a Detroiter, for sharing this history. I live very close to Pontchartrain Blvd here in Detroit.
History Guy, Love the videos, especially this one! Keep them coming. As a life-long resident of Michigan and sometime resident of the straits area, the history of Michilimackinac is greatly underappreciated. I highly recommend the book "At The Crossroads, Michilimackinac During The American Revolution" by David A. Armour and Kieth R. Widder, available through the Mackinac State Historic Parks. A great read. about forgotten history.
I really appreciate the historical snipits you provide the world. Love it.
I drove through Cadillac on Monday. Beautiful ancient buildings.
Now I know where we get our tenacity. Always bouncing back to be on top. Thanks for the lesson. I live down the street from the Cadillac building.😊
I was in elementary school in Detroit in 1951 when the 250th anniversary of Detroit was celebrated and there were nearly two million people living in the city. I finally left for good in 1973 for career advancement. The place has fallen on hard times since then but I have good memories.
As a resident of Metro Detroit, this was quite an interesting watch and I learned a lot about the city and its origins
Thanks for your efforts to produce this important reminder of Detroit's beginnings. The place looked very different 300 years ago, to say the least. Ottawa, Miami, Wyandot, Potawatomi, Sac, Fox, Huron and French. What a mix compared to today. I love how a dog bite started a war. I'll bet the fishing was great back then. You probably didn't even need to lock up your canoe.
From a person that was born and raised in Pontiac, it's nice to see something about Detroit, my favorite city. Say what you want about it, doesn't matter to me.
Did you know Pontiac was named after Indian call Chef Pontiac...?
@@steveshoemaker6347 Yes, we learned this in school. He was an Ottawa chief.
@@chiefpontiac1800 I did not know if this was still taught in school now adays .So much is lost in history in school today....Thanks for the return...!
I use to have a collection of Cadillacs. I now know how they got their name! Thank you for the interesting history
lesson!
Cady-yack, true french pronunciation.
One of my 7th-great grandfathers was Andre Chauvet dit Camirand, born in 1667 in Camiran, France. He arrived in New France by 1707, when he married in Montreal to Marie-Anne Pastorel dit LaFranchise. Shortly after they were in Detroit, where their two eldest children Andre (fils) and Pierre (my 6th-great grandfather) were born in 1708 and 1710, respectively, and were baptized at Sainte-Anne. Andre (the elder) is believed to have been acquainted with Cadillac. I will see if I can find out more about this.
They didn't remain in Detroit long, however, as by 1714 they had moved back downstream to Trois-Rivieres in what is now Quebec, and is where many of my ancestors hail from. Andre died there in 1755, as did his wife nine years earlier. I just wanted to share that tidbit, with my ancestor's connection to Cadillac.
Found more info:
Andre Chauvet
Born: 1670 (or 1667)
Andre Chauvet dit Camiran was born in France around 1670 in the region of Guyenne (now Aquitaine). He was baptized in the church of St-Pierre in the village of Camiran, in the wine-producing ''Entre-Deux-Mers'' area, upstream from Bordeaux on the Garonne river.
Andre was a ''sergent des troupes de la Marine'' when he arrived in Fort Pontchartrain in 1703. There he met Anne Pastourel dit Lafranchise, a young widow with two children, who had been hired as a midwife to Cadillac's wife. Andre and Anne eventually married in Montreal (July 17th 1707) and returned to live in Fort Pontchartrain for a few years. Two sons were born there, Pierre and Andre. The family left sometime between 1711 and 1714 and settled in Trois-Rivieres were Andre became a cabaretier (pub owner). This is a very fitting occupation since the Chauvet family is still in the wine business to this day in the region of Camiran.
Andre, whose surname is sometimes misspelled ''Chovet'' (and was for a long time misspelled ''Chouet'' on this very site), held lot #02 (on Rue Ste. Anne) of the original 68 land grants Cadillac made to private individuals from March 1707 to June 1710.
[A big ''thank you'' goes out to Anne Camirand, Ph.D., a descendant of Andre Chauvet dit Camiran, for providing much of this information and for giving me the correct spelling of the name Chauvet.]
Hey history guy! Thanks for the video!
Thanks for the covering my local history. A quick point, Mackinac is pronounced "Mack in awe"
Episodes I would like to see include the compromises that led to the state lines around Lake Michigan and Lake Superior. As a child studying Minnesota history, I learned they could have been different but that would have given the North 2 more Senate seats than the South. When I returned to the region, I read a well written regional history that confirmed the state line between Wisconsin (where I live now) and Minnesota was proposed by Stephen Douglas at Wisconsin's statehood, eliminating that extra state. Our Stateline is now is the St Croix River, named by Jesuit Louis Hennepin, but it makes little sense to how we actually live on this land. I now reside in Hudson which was already a settlement before the French arrived.
So nice to see a History Guy video and there's only thumbs up.
Anna Horton There are 2 thumbs down now. Must be people from Buffalo, N.Y. Who thought they were the biggest city on the border with Canada! 😀
@@samiam619 I should have known that it would not last. Anyone who thumbs down a History Guy video is an ignorant and uneducated ASS!
You are also amazing with the names in foreign languages. I watched your video on the Tu154. Lots of difficult to pronounce names there as well.
Well done!
Cadillac Michigan offers great fishing and hunting.
All of Michigan does. This whole state is an amazing outdoor paradise
@@CAPDude44 Well, about 90% of the state....from Clare Northwards. Not much beauty south of Sagnasty.
Channels like this one are what is wonderful about RUclips.
Another fine installment. Thanks so much, always worthwhile.
Great history lesson ! Looking forward to more of them ! Thank you !
You answered question I've had regularly about Detroit and now really placed it and the surrounding history in context for me. Thanks 👍
That was a really great presentation. You have a gift for sharing history, you can really hold an audience's attention. Keep 'em comin', please.
As always, a great story! Thank you so much!
You miss the real reason Cadillac chose the site of Detroit. Basically he looked at the map & saw the North American Constantinople/Istanbul. Look at a map, Lake Huron is the Aegean, the St. Clair River is the Dardanelles, Lake St Clair is the Sea of Marmara, and Detroit/Istanbul are at the head of the Detroit River/Bosporus, which empties into Lake Erie/the Black Sea. He saw the strategic crossroads of the “new”continent and made sure that it was made French.
I didn't know about the founding of Detroit. Thanks history guy.
Few people know that Detroit use to have a population well over a million people.
It was near 2 million in the 40s and 50s, 4th largest city in US. The area still has 5 million.
And I believe up to the 1960s the highest number of trees in its suburban area than any other city in the United States.
And to add to what Ward (1.85 million people) and Anubis (tree lined streets and boulevards) pointed out: it had and still may have, the largest urban stock of high quality single family dwellings in the United States, meaning miles of brick house neighborhoods sited on their own lawn covered lots. It had some of the most magnificent and historic R.C. church buildings in the Midwest if not the US. And the local climate is USDA zone 6b ... milder, more temperate, than northern Ohio.
Detroit was a kind of residential jewel. And it was fought over, subverted and destroyed by resentment driven, corrupt, conscienceless and self-seeking sociopolitical parties and interests until only a comparative husk remained.
@@NorthCharlton I think you are not looking at way the auto companies kept doing anything but change their ways and allowed the Japanese to show them how to make a quality auto. I agree in general with your statement but being from this general area I watched the auto companies die slowly and not change from post WWII to the present which is my lifespan.
Auto company management was certainly guilty of many things. Shortsightedness, in the moral fiber, financial, and strategic areas being most obvious. The UAW on the other hand showed many of the same miserable attributes, and were in addition, not seemingly able in some cases to decide whether they were primarily interested in direct employee benefits, or some more general leftist, society re-shaping enterprise.
We all know the stories. In the case of Chrysler bad, or incoherent management, rushed production, and poor quality control, coupled, amazingly, to sometimes innovative and even groundbreaking engineering. In the case of the UAW, a militancy and exaggerated demands which eventually blew up in its face, nearly having killed the geese that laid its golden eggs.
If you are from the area, and you knew people who worked in the plants, you will recall how embarrassed many of them were to admit all the fringe benefits they were getting, and the time-clock abuses that went on in the plants. Hell, I talked to any number of union members who didn't really want wages so much as ever increasing fringes, which were not taxed. If they took more money, they would be liable for the taxes their "progressive" union leaders wanted socially imposed on everyone else.
I am entirely sympathetic on the issues of safe and tolerable working conditions, freedom from petty supervisory tyrannies, and reasonable hours. I am also for collective bargaining, and good wages and profit sharing.
But when we saw the UAW and its members trying to shelter behind fringe benefits in order to avoid the burdens they wished to impose on everyone who was an independent, especially in the case of the UAW's negative stance on health savings accounts, they lost all moral authority as far as I was concerned.
There was a time when those who did not work for the car companies and were not members of the UAW still broadly identified with these institutions.
When we saw just how completely irresponsible and self-serving they were, and how as pressures mounted they expected what amounted to special treatment under the law, many of us said "to hell with auto management and labor." and they can take the corrupt municipality of Detroit with them.
I've been in these plants. Line work is hard. But I have also seen what amount to a class of privileged morons hiding in tool cribs, floating around the shop floor, whiling away the time until they could punch out and collect a check for 3 times what they could earn if they had to prove their worth.
As far as I am concerned you could have tied Leonard Woodcock, Coleman Young, and Roger Smith to the same anchor and dumped all three in the Marianas Trench, without committing even a venial sin.
The siege of Detroit during Pontiac's rebellion is a great story.
The comment regarding René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle reminds me of the old Great Sauk Indian Trail, later renamed Detroit-Chicago Road then Highway and reading somewhere back in time Father Gabriel Richard's travels on that route between Chicago and Detroit as well as his founding of the Catholepistemiad of Michigania.
Leave it to the History Guy to brighten my view of Detroit.
Illinois has its own history filled city....used to be called "Chicago.. the windy city".
Maybe there's hope! Thanks to the History Guy!
You are amazing! I am learning so much from your short videos. Thank you!!
Thank you history Guy I learned something today
He was the Cadillac of explorers. (thank you, I'll be here all night)
Thanks! Great video. I've enjoyed many of your videos but this was special. Detroit is home.
History Guy, Thank you again.
This is a small point, but plays a role in my love for this channel. Not only does The History Guy bring clear, concise and interesting content, but he does it with high volume levels. I typically watch episodes on my breaks at work, on my phone and it's not always quiet. The best channels to watch are those that interest me and have adequate level. As I said, a small point. But like great History, it is worthy of appreciation. Thank you!
As a life long Michigander, thanks for this fabulous episode!
Go WINGS !
I, too, thank you for this excellent presentation.
Thank you so much for your diligence and professional presentation's. I am cursed with a 185+ i.q. and when I need to relax and let my mind rest I turn to your channel and let these naratives take me away. My mind slows down enough so I can function . Poinient and honest . Matter of fact unembellished history. I wish very much that you could've been one of the instructors of my youth. I'm grateful for the educational experience and would love to attend and pay to see and hear you lecture on any topic you choose. Be safe and thanks again.
Really interesting. Thanks for sharing!
As always, another great episode.
Your Cadillac story was very interesting to me ... it was the first time that I have been exposed to the history of Detroit and I found it facinating. I have a suggestion for another historical post for you .... the Royal Navy rum ration. Best wishes!
Thanks for another great lesson about my birthplace History Guy.
I grew up in Detroit, and you really can't talk about Michigan history without mentioning Henry Ford. His effect on Detroit and the surrounding state is still being felt to this day.
as always, great content - C'est Magnifique!
No caps in the middle of a phrase in french. And a space before the exclamation point. "C'est magnifique !" Also this expression really isn't the best for this. "Très intéressant !" "Captivant !"
I really enjoy your delivery, you maintain your listeners' interest! Your phrasing is excellent.
Thanks for sharing!! Sadly Cadillac would be rolling in this grave knowing what Detroit has become today
I really doubt that my friend. If you are not a resident then you don't know squat about Detroit and its people etc.🤤😠
Cara B. Are you joking? Had to live there for work but thank God I was able moved away, that City is a straight shit hole nowadays haha
As would Henry Leland if he knew what became of his beloved Cadillac.
Another explorer is LaSalle. One time, his ship, The Gryphon sunk in Great Lakes. He traveled on foot from South Bend to Detroit on foot and alone to try to get those who sunk his ship that was full of furs.Most of his trail was on US12. He was one who named the longest river in Michigan, St. Joseph after his patron saint. He, also, went to Chicago, followed Chicago River down the entire Mississippi.
Thanks for that Tom
And the name given to another General Motors luxury automobile brand.
Oops! He went clear from St. Joseph, MI to Detroit.
Renee Robert Cavalier, Sieur de LaSalle's story is an excellent suggestion! He was probably the greatest land explorer in history.
@@lindsaygraham5687 LaSalle explored around Canada too and hence LaSalle Park, near Hamilton Ontario
Thank you, another excellent program about something for which I knew little. Hopefully, now his memory will resound better than the modern version of the automobile that bears his name.
A fascinating story! I had wondered who the man was behind the name of Cadillac. Thanks for sharing this.
Mrs. History Guy does a great job.
Great as always.
Great video. The drawing of the town at the 9:40 mark is of Halifax shortly after its founding in 1749.
Great vid !!! Tq history guy 👍
I grew up ten miles north of this fort, but the difference in that ten minutes is nearly incomprehensible.
I really enjoy your history stories, plus the pictures behind u. Oh yes the different hats and where u put them. Thanks
You mentioned Frontenac, in this video. There is a Chateau du Frontenac in Quebec, which I imagine has a history relating back to the same Frontenac who was involved with Cadillac, and died earlier. I'd be interested in the history surrounding Mssr Frontenac, I'm sure many French Canadians would be too.
Great presentation! I knew most of this, having grown up in Detroit, but indeed learned new details!