The Hidden History of Lake St. Clair full documentary

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  • Опубликовано: 25 янв 2025

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  • @nicolethompson8613
    @nicolethompson8613 10 месяцев назад +4

    I enjoyed this, thanks! Greetings from the beautiful shores of Lake Saint Clair - as the sun rises this morning the seagulls are back, flying overhead and as loud as ever, the mourning doves are cooing, the robin's chirping, and the lake lightly lapping the shores. God bless this beautiful place that some of us love to call "home".

  • @ErinDindoffer
    @ErinDindoffer 5 месяцев назад +3

    My 3rd and 2nd great grandparents settled along Lake St. Clair (1820s-1830s) and our family has never really left the area. From Mt. Clemens to Grosse Pointe (their farm was next to the Morross' " . I grew up in a subdivision along the Clinton River, and I can confirm its flooding is notorious and is a haven for mosquitoes. My grandfather used to tell me about St. Felicity. The history of the area from the 1700's which this segment doesn't touch is very interesting: The Moravian Missionaries, Chippewa Indian Tribe and German settlers who all used the area and fought over it the navigation of the Clinton river branches...As a native, I wish more effort was put into this.

  • @joestocking
    @joestocking 11 месяцев назад +11

    I love watching the sunrise from Lake St Clair.

  • @cholber1
    @cholber1 11 месяцев назад +14

    I love living on lake St Clair. Paradise for sure.

  • @kurtkabat203
    @kurtkabat203 10 месяцев назад +5

    My stomping grounds! I grew up on Anchor Bay, Lake St. Clair. It’s a beautiful area with incredible rich history. It’s holds a special place in my heart and soul

  • @TK-ri7pl
    @TK-ri7pl 10 месяцев назад +6

    Nice reminder of the area I grew up, lived, and boated in.
    Nice narration by Mr Carey......reminded me of the great Mort Crim

    • @BillBondsHasAPosse
      @BillBondsHasAPosse 9 месяцев назад

      Mort Crim was my next door neighbor in Grosse Pointe Farms when I was a kid.

  • @honeyLXIX
    @honeyLXIX 10 месяцев назад +6

    11:30 what a neat opportunity--to study a flooded 170 year old town would be awesome.

  • @donwalker8246
    @donwalker8246 9 месяцев назад +5

    Schoolmates played hockey on frozen LSC and were rescued by Coast Guard when ice broke off and headed for Detroit River. Others sailed off at dinner and “found their thrill on Strawberry Hill” and had to be rescued from Strawberry Island

  • @homegrown1015
    @homegrown1015 10 месяцев назад +1

    I live about an hour away from Lake St. Claire and have never seen it. It's a beautiful area with much history. Thanks for the video.

  • @dragonwithagirltattoo598
    @dragonwithagirltattoo598 10 месяцев назад +5

    I spent a lot of time on lake St. Clair with my dad on his boat. He had a home on Harsens island once upon a time. I always loved the entire area.

    • @nicolethompson8613
      @nicolethompson8613 10 месяцев назад

      Harsen's Island is so nice, he was a lucky man!

    • @MohdKhan02
      @MohdKhan02 4 месяца назад

      U still have that house?

  • @Unapproachable_Light
    @Unapproachable_Light 10 месяцев назад +4

    My Dad had a home movie camera and had a video that was taken around the late '50s-early '60s from when we went out to Lake St Clair for the day. I think it was an uncle who caught a brook trout that would've weighed about 5-6 pounds. I was too young to remember but my Dad got a good video of it. I didn't know St. Clair had brook trout.

  • @Ripsaw17
    @Ripsaw17 4 месяца назад +2

    What kills me is Lake St Clair isn't considered part of the Great Lakes but yet you can't get from Lake Huron to Lake Erie without going through Lake Sinclair

    • @lennydetloff1031
      @lennydetloff1031 4 месяца назад

      I guess you're the only one who thinks that 😅

    • @Ripsaw17
      @Ripsaw17 Месяц назад

      Do you have all the government won't consider late St Clair part of the Great Lakes because then it falls under the same protection act that the Great Lakes have in most of the industries did pollute or beautiful Lake wouldn't be able to do so and when you change it from a Delta to a lake and sing how all the big ships go through Lake Sinclair to get to Lake Erie and you've actually dredged the Detroit river that used to be an actual Creek that they turned into a river so you don't know the history of this area maybe you should do some research on what they actually did to the lake system here back in the 16th and 1700s

  • @daveross5995
    @daveross5995 10 месяцев назад +9

    so this is a documentary on Anchor Bay... not Lake St Clair. Most of the lake is in Canada.

    • @pryder2912
      @pryder2912 9 месяцев назад +2

      Never heard of it

    • @Lmfleaflicker
      @Lmfleaflicker 9 месяцев назад +2

      Canada that is south of Detroit or is that Toledo?

    • @pryder2912
      @pryder2912 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@Lmfleaflicker yes, Canada is directly south of Detroit, so Windsor is more or less the gateway to Toledo, which in turn Toledo is the gateway to tropical & beautiful Lima, Ohio.

    • @JulieD-wm2xi
      @JulieD-wm2xi 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@Lmfleaflickerboth 😂

    • @marieabineau
      @marieabineau 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@Lmfleaflicker heh heh...

  • @jeweleratlarge
    @jeweleratlarge 10 месяцев назад +12

    Does anyone remember a man named Ray Trombley?
    He was a devoted conservationist, fishing guide and was instrumental in creating and managing the smallmouth bass population in the lake.
    I had the pleasure of fishing with him several times in the 70's and 80's.
    A true Lake St. Clair legacy

    • @donaldfeger91
      @donaldfeger91 10 месяцев назад +2

      I used see his name around in the Detroit Free Press!

    • @jeweleratlarge
      @jeweleratlarge 10 месяцев назад

      @@donaldfeger91He was a cool guy

    • @QueenofHuronia
      @QueenofHuronia 9 месяцев назад +2

      My dad grew up with Ray & his brother(s), they were friends for years. Ray used to live way out at the very end of North River Rd., where it stuck out into the lake. We lived farther up the Clinton River. The residents and township wanted to get rid of some old rotted off pilings out there that boats were hitting, so they hired my dad, a self-taught part-time underwater demolition guy (not his regular job) to work with the Army Corp of Eng. to place underwater explosives at the bases of the pilings, and blew them up. I still have an old photo of a bunch of fish that floated up dead from the concussion!

    • @jeweleratlarge
      @jeweleratlarge 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@QueenofHuronia Wow, great story...I do remember the house on North River Road. I believe one of his son's carried on the charter business for a short time after Ray died. I heard the boat that he built and used all those year was sunk in the lake as a fish gathering spot.

    • @ozmaile7938
      @ozmaile7938 9 месяцев назад +2

      Yea was the name of my Grade School in GPP.......(i am guessing named after him) also a street

  • @JoeMichel-r6u
    @JoeMichel-r6u 10 месяцев назад +4

    As a resident of St Clair Shores for over 60+ years, I can honestly say it is like paradise...

    • @nicolethompson8613
      @nicolethompson8613 10 месяцев назад

      Hallooooo neighbor!! ❤ A blessed Easter to you!

  • @johnrill4612
    @johnrill4612 9 месяцев назад +2

    Love this lake. We lived in Roseville from 87 to 94. Every winter was an ice fishing dream. Usually off of Selfrige or Metro. Love those late winter sow belly Perch.

  • @johncronin5311
    @johncronin5311 10 месяцев назад +1

    Ive walk across the North channel many times with my Dad in the winter to get to the St Clair flatts for some off the best pike spearing in the world and in only about 2 ft of water after the ice was formed, generally about 1ft thick or so in our heated shanty, after spearing many lunkers, I consider myself blessed to have had these wonderful expiriences on lake St Clair

  • @MartinTerbrack
    @MartinTerbrack 10 месяцев назад +4

    very well researched and produced

  • @KMRH1969
    @KMRH1969 29 дней назад +1

    Harsens Island was the best place to grow up!

  • @JulieD-wm2xi
    @JulieD-wm2xi 9 месяцев назад +2

    came for a random video about the never talked about lake st. Claire. come to find out i live in what was the old belvedere city right on the Clinton River 😂🎉 awesome to learn about mt Clemons and the river I've been exploring the past few years!

  • @oldtimer86
    @oldtimer86 8 месяцев назад +2

    I go to Metropark everyday.
    Love it!

  • @GerryChampagne-tw3wf
    @GerryChampagne-tw3wf 9 месяцев назад +1

    Hello, can anyone help me with the lake bottome of Lake St. Clair? I'm looking at a project and need what the bottom is consists of? Thanks in advance. If you don't know what it's made of, can you point me in the right direction? I've been searching and asking for a couple months with no luck.

    • @marcmaren1986
      @marcmaren1986 9 месяцев назад +1

      I grew up on the Canadian side of the lake. Pretty sure it’s mostly sand and clay.

    • @QueenofHuronia
      @QueenofHuronia 9 месяцев назад

      My dad did alot of diving in the top half, off shore of Harrison Twp., Chesterfield Twp. & New Baltimore area. Mostly sand and clay, sandy silt on top, thick clay under it. very silty, and the shallowness with so much wave action makes the water more murky and muddy, not crystal blue like the northern Great Lakes. Although since the zebra mussel invasion, the water is alot clearer than it used to be.

    • @PrimeMinisterofSillyThings
      @PrimeMinisterofSillyThings 9 месяцев назад

      Grew up in New Baltimore and you're correct. Sand, silt, and clay

  • @oconnorsean12
    @oconnorsean12 10 месяцев назад +1

    How fortunate for us who live in the area that we have such a beautiful and enjoyable resource. Lake St Claire is actually a delta for the upper great lakes

    • @oconnorsean12
      @oconnorsean12 4 месяца назад

      I have a question, I've seen your post. Very similar to my posts.

  • @conradboykoii1170
    @conradboykoii1170 9 месяцев назад +1

    Enjoyed the lake when I was kid, and dad and I did a lot of fishing there and the bays around Harsen, and Dickenson Islands. Compared to Lake St. Clair, fishing for trout in Colorado sucked. Missed the perch, sunfish, walleye, pike and, Muskie we used to catch.
    Came back after 35 years, and enjoy the fishing again!

    • @QueenofHuronia
      @QueenofHuronia 9 месяцев назад

      And found and married the Queen of Huronia!! ; )

  • @north0002
    @north0002 11 месяцев назад +8

    It's interesting but more like a commerce video. Does not really cover much of lost towns or cemetery. Sure hope water can stay clean and protected from being sold.

    • @johnr033
      @johnr033 11 месяцев назад +3

      I agree 100% and definitely not long enough. Very disappointing to say the least.

    • @artcflowers
      @artcflowers 9 месяцев назад

      Yeah, sort of an intro to whet interest and look for more detailed videos about the area and its long history. Im going to see if the Historysea channel has anything. He's detailed oriented and provides info of doings elsewhere on the timeline. Good stuff

  • @stacyjackson6276
    @stacyjackson6276 10 месяцев назад +3

    Reminds me of the videos in school we watched 😅

  • @Ncharlestun
    @Ncharlestun 2 месяца назад

    As a 3rd and 4th grader at the now torn down Selfridge AFB Elementary School in the mid 1960s when the Beatles ruled, it was always a joy to catch a stringerfull of perch to take home to eat every day after school. We didn't want to catch those mudpuppies and carp though.

  • @kevind3185
    @kevind3185 27 дней назад

    Grew up on Lake Saint Clair and Saint John's Marsh I knew that marsh like the back of my hand. Monster pike just as the ice melted in the spring spawning in the marsh. Big Musky on the Canadian side, walleye and sturgeon in the channels perch on the flats and a world class small mouth bass fishery.

  • @DaleSims-r1u
    @DaleSims-r1u 6 месяцев назад +2

    The invasive phragmites weed has displaced the other reeds and rice that thrived before the 1980s

  • @markmico6515
    @markmico6515 10 месяцев назад +2

    I believe it was back in the 80s when we had a priest at St. Gertrude Father Mike, who went in search of St. Felicity and found it The Macomb Daily covered the story..

  • @MaryStevens-tb2dz
    @MaryStevens-tb2dz 4 месяца назад

    My parents build a cottage on Hansen's Island when my dad retired on North Channel Drive. It was a great time in our lives.

  • @KenAdamek
    @KenAdamek 11 месяцев назад +9

    I agree with the comment of this being like a commercial video. I wanted more about the subject matter, and in 28 minutes, it seemed like they spent 7 minutes actually talking about the history. But it was enjoyable!

    • @alanjohnson2613
      @alanjohnson2613 10 месяцев назад +2

      Whats wrong with it being a commercial for lake st clair, we need more of these if we expect to lure more people to s.e. Michigan.

    • @fredkaluza
      @fredkaluza 10 месяцев назад +3

      @@alanjohnson2613 Compare the lake as it was in the 1600's to what it is now. How is attracting more people to the area going to improve the lake or the lives of the majority of people already here?

  • @locksphotography
    @locksphotography 10 месяцев назад +1

    Many boats are taken out in the winter?

    • @fredkaluza
      @fredkaluza 10 месяцев назад

      Yes. As they said in the video...many boats that are used during warm weather are taken out of the water and stored on-shore to reduce the chance of ice damage. Lake St. Clair is a fresh-water lake which freezes solid (ice thickness depends on how cold and how long). Boats that aren't removed typically have a air-pump/compressor/air-stone whose bubbles keep the water agitated around the hull and prevents ice from forming.

    • @nicolethompson8613
      @nicolethompson8613 10 месяцев назад

      Lol all of them unless you hate your boat!

    • @edwardmiller9611
      @edwardmiller9611 9 месяцев назад

      Taken Out of the water..

    • @JulieD-wm2xi
      @JulieD-wm2xi 9 месяцев назад

      yes its a pain in the rear lol worth it though

  • @ohnoohyeah3205
    @ohnoohyeah3205 9 месяцев назад +1

    I miss home in St. Clair Shores. Not every documentary needs to point out the sh-tty side of everything. I enjoyed this.

    • @JulieD-wm2xi
      @JulieD-wm2xi 9 месяцев назад

      I live on the Clinton River and I love this water id never jump into 😂 I thought people were exaggerating a few years back when I moved here. although its not swimmable its amazing the amount of wildlife on the river in this area. great fishing and boating area too!

  • @johnnyb3987
    @johnnyb3987 4 месяца назад

    I live in St Clair Shores and I had no idea there was even a place called Belvidere. It's crazy all of the stuff that went down back when. Funny how a lot of the names of things here and there still survive with no evidence of their origins.

  • @FeldwebelWolfenstool
    @FeldwebelWolfenstool 16 дней назад

    ...a LOT of wild Gingseng was exported from N.America, too. Queen Victoria made it a Protected Species in Ontario, Canada and banned any and all harvest of the plant.

  • @peterpeplinski9923
    @peterpeplinski9923 10 месяцев назад +3

    Before engines how would a boat make it up the st Clair river

    • @jakegarvin7634
      @jakegarvin7634 10 месяцев назад +4

      It was terrible, everyone had to fart at once in the same direction...a lot of the extra cargo space was reserved for beans

    • @jakegarvin7634
      @jakegarvin7634 10 месяцев назад +3

      Kidding friend , you had to sail in a 45 degree zig zag with your sails tight

    • @peterpeplinski9923
      @peterpeplinski9923 10 месяцев назад

      @jakegarvin7634 it's a river it's not wide enough to turn at all it has 3 of the great lakes and millions of acres of land drainage emptying into it. I've taken my boat with a 125 hp motor up that river full throttle and your not moving. I know eneough about sailing to know that answer is one of the dumbest comments on RUclips

    • @jakegarvin7634
      @jakegarvin7634 10 месяцев назад +1

      @peterpeplinski9923 thanks, I thought that would get a laugh...and I live on that river too lol...if you can't tack up the current (pre engine) then you had to get off and walk...but what a fucking river to do some boating on, right? Beautiful

    • @jakegarvin7634
      @jakegarvin7634 10 месяцев назад

      Oh and you gotta remember back then ships were smaller too

  • @navelriver
    @navelriver 9 месяцев назад +1

    "....'an wind can blow laik 'urricane, an' 'spose she blows some more, you can't get drowned in Lac St. Clair so long you stay on shore"

  • @joserrapere5928
    @joserrapere5928 8 месяцев назад +1

    This is great. But I feel like I should be in a classroom back in the 80s. My hair is becoming larger as I watch.

  • @tammyh811
    @tammyh811 11 месяцев назад +1

    Love paddle boarding on Lake St Clair !

  • @notdone1975
    @notdone1975 10 месяцев назад +2

    Glad to see lake st.clair only has one side!

  • @averagejo16
    @averagejo16 9 месяцев назад +1

    A very interesting story about Be!vedere. I never heard until now.

  • @kathleenmartin7498
    @kathleenmartin7498 8 месяцев назад +1

    Aren't residents who live on the lake still fighting to have raw human waste stopped from bring dumped in here from the sewage treatment centers???

  • @fredkaluza
    @fredkaluza 10 месяцев назад +22

    Not a word about how the lake has become a dumping ground for human waste and non-native plant and animal species but as long as the surface is shiny...those that live on the edges still like it.

    • @chrispy1065
      @chrispy1065 10 месяцев назад +3

      Yet it still is one of the cleanest waterways in the world . No good swimming out west

    • @nicolethompson8613
      @nicolethompson8613 10 месяцев назад +9

      We don't just like our lake, we LOVE it! There are many initiatives and local organizations that are working to clean it up, because of course we care. In the meantime, if you have found a magical way to make big corporations do the right thing and clean it up themselves, I would love to hear about it.

    • @fredkaluza
      @fredkaluza 10 месяцев назад +7

      Build a dam on the Red Run at Dequindre and let Oakland County figure out what to do with their own poop.

    • @paulwindisch1423
      @paulwindisch1423 9 месяцев назад +8

      The answer is expensive. The storm and sanitary drains need to be separated, as right now they are shared. Whenever there is a large rain it overwhelms the drain, which leads to water treatment plants. During this time, the drains are diverted to the lake. So, separate the two systems and also make use of more natural ways to retain storm water, like ditches and engineered grassy low spots.

    • @Joe-xm3fm
      @Joe-xm3fm 14 дней назад

      Not a lake buddy😂 it’s simply a river that opens up at st Clair and goes to the det river

  • @anthonyxerri5919
    @anthonyxerri5919 10 месяцев назад +3

    Home Sweet Home

  • @keithhyttinen8275
    @keithhyttinen8275 10 месяцев назад +4

    Plenty of old beer bottles on the bottom.

  • @lawrencekoprowski6480
    @lawrencekoprowski6480 10 месяцев назад +2

    My neck of the woods.

  • @JoeThornFreedom
    @JoeThornFreedom 10 месяцев назад +2

    Too many clips and music not enough history

  • @nikkiblack5073
    @nikkiblack5073 10 месяцев назад +6

    nice commercial with a little History

  • @hertzer2000
    @hertzer2000 10 месяцев назад +9

    So, it was a fine area then humans fucked it up. Got it.

    • @joedirt9600
      @joedirt9600 10 месяцев назад +2

      Oh stop,,,when was the last time you visited the area, it's still beautiful.

  • @mikefromflorida8357
    @mikefromflorida8357 10 месяцев назад +1

    Stop the annoying background noise.

  • @stevefogus6298
    @stevefogus6298 4 месяца назад

    Loose the music- monotonous and too loud

  • @theconfused_fisherman
    @theconfused_fisherman 9 месяцев назад +1

    22:29 that girl thiccer than a sniccer

  • @BillBondsHasAPosse
    @BillBondsHasAPosse 9 месяцев назад +1

    What a dump! Metro Beach no mas por favor ! Mucho Grosso!

    • @JulieD-wm2xi
      @JulieD-wm2xi 9 месяцев назад

      oof i moved over to a place ON the Clinton River a few years ago knowing nothing about this area and I couldn't agree more! it is nasssty water in the Clinton River. the beach at metro park is also a place Id never go to again! there are a lot of nice clean beaches north of Mt Clemons, near Port Huron. it's definitely worth the short drive for a day on a clean, free, uncrowded beach.

  • @Ripsaw17
    @Ripsaw17 4 месяца назад

    They should have left in the frontier

  • @CBe-ot8vu
    @CBe-ot8vu 10 месяцев назад +2

    Lake st clair is not large. On a map it is a spec next to lake erie n below lake huron

    • @QueenofHuronia
      @QueenofHuronia 9 месяцев назад +1

      30 miles, top to bottom, 30 miles, east to west, is considered quite a large lake in most other parts of the U.S.

    • @bricebru22
      @bricebru22 9 месяцев назад +2

      15th largest lake in the country

  • @CBe-ot8vu
    @CBe-ot8vu 10 месяцев назад +1

    We dont have beavers or loons in lake st clair where tf did most of these clips come from? Not lake st clair!

    • @QueenofHuronia
      @QueenofHuronia 9 месяцев назад

      Yes actually, over by the flats and Canada.

    • @JulieD-wm2xi
      @JulieD-wm2xi 9 месяцев назад

      huh.? I saw a bever across the river a few weeks ago. they're definitely out here on the ol clinton River my friend. lots of cranes and blue herons everywhere....

  • @CBe-ot8vu
    @CBe-ot8vu 10 месяцев назад +1

    Nobody snowmobiled on lake st clair in 2 years. The lake didn't even freeze this winter fool

    • @JulieD-wm2xi
      @JulieD-wm2xi 9 месяцев назад

      I live 15 min boat ride up the Clinton River and it actually did freeze for about 3 days. not the entire lake of course but enough to walk out and drill a hole! caught a couple perch too. until next year my friend!