tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18997901947203477012024-02-07T18:51:53.117-05:00THE LAST LORD OF PARADISEGreat Lakes and Michigan history during the time of New France. Genealogy, especially the Detroit River French, and THE LAST LORD OF PARADISE a Kindle series by Vivian LeMay.
Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-59706333962455375052014-02-11T13:12:00.001-05:002014-03-07T23:24:37.293-05:00THE LAST LORD OF PARADISE, COMPLETE SERIES
... From the day in 1766 when the Marquise Jeanne Reneau reunites with her husband Anton in the New World, through six generations of their descendants. All in one great Kindle book.
Vivian
THE LAST LORD OF PARADISE, COMPLETE SERIES By VIVIAN LEMAY
Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-88860882938832699982013-08-14T17:05:00.000-04:002013-12-03T13:26:51.114-05:00LES COUREURS DE BOIS ET VOYAGEURS DE STE. CLAIRE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT, MICHIGAN'S FRENCH CANADIAN HERITAGE DAY, AND JAMES LAFOREST'S STORYKEEPERS PROJECT
The Voyageur's Encampment at Lake St. Clair Metropark 2011
Well ... got myself all geared up for the the Voyageur's Encampment last weekend. Sturdy shoes, sunscreen, hat and camera in hand––I headed over to the Montreal canoe presentation. The presenter was a talented storyteller. He brought the French voyageurs, the fur trade, and history of New France to life. Unfortunately I did Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-37803485089315516542013-08-09T15:51:00.000-04:002013-12-03T13:33:33.119-05:00MACKINAC VACATION PART III –– THE FORTY MILE POINT LIGHTHOUSE, A PLEASANT SURPRISE
Fifty Miles south of Mackinaw City is the Forty Mile Point Lighthouse
And so we left Mackinaw City. Tired and happy to be heading home after a great vacation and content that we'd seen and done everything we wanted to, we pronounced this vacation over, put our cameras away and settled into the drive down US 23. But about an hour south we spotted a sign for the Forty Mile PointVivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-54194837716041293142013-07-26T14:32:00.000-04:002013-12-03T13:41:00.083-05:00VACATION AT MACKINAC PART II
Mackinac Island is the place to go when you visit the Straits of Mackinac, but the hubs and I prefer to head across the Big Mac Bridge to Sault Ste. Marie and the Soo Locks. Guess I am just a Boatnerd at heart and watching a 1000 ft. freighter, that's 104 ft wide inch its way through the 110 ft wide Poe Lock, fascinates me. This year we planned our visit for the annual Engineers Day on June 28thVivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-80860373927782909272013-07-16T12:09:00.000-04:002013-12-03T13:55:51.013-05:00VACATION AT MACKINAC PART I
The Straits of Mackinac
The Straits of Mackinac must be one of the most photographed places in the world. Yet no two photos are ever quite the same. Sunlight, clouds, mist, wind, change the scene from moment to moment, and tomorrow will seem entirely different from today. That's why people return year after year to the same park bench by the Mackinac Bridge.
&Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-469166332403764672013-04-22T12:34:00.000-04:002013-12-03T13:58:58.584-05:00DETROIT MICHIGAN DUSK
Happened to catch the webcam on Belle Isle at just the right moment last Saturday evening. My thanks to The Dossin Great Lakes Museum, and the Detroit Historical Society for these great photos.
http://detroithistorical.org/dossin-great-lakes-museum/detroit-river-watch-webcam
Ambassador Bridge to Canada. Windsor Ontario is on the left.
The Detroit River makes a sharp bend Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-81520726340231925682013-04-09T10:09:00.002-04:002013-12-03T14:26:59.565-05:00DETROIT AND ITS NAIN ROUGE
Le Nain Rouge–The Red Devil of Detroit
This past March 25th, the people of Detroit Michigan gathered together. Their objective? To chase the Nain Rouge from the streets of their town. http://marchedunainrouge.com/gallery/
Nain Rouge? you ask. What's that? The name translates from French as Red Dwarf and the reason this guy hangs around Detroit goesVivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-10568565534916010592013-03-15T12:16:00.001-04:002013-12-03T14:30:01.336-05:00MY MOTHER WAS RIGHT
Remember being a kid––a teenager old enough to remember things? Remember how your mom or dad told you stories about the past, and being a teenager you automatically dismissed their stories because… well just because. They were your parents after all, ancient as far as you were concerned, and befuddled by all that was new. You figured they must have dreamed up these stories about the Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-73668667195744254912013-02-14T09:47:00.000-05:002013-12-03T16:16:09.359-05:00THE JESUITS, AND MY OLD PEAR TREE
Bosc Pear (Pyrus communis 'Beurre Bosc') posted by Paul2032
Decades ago my husband and I bought our first home. It was located near Lake St. Clair where the early French first settled, but I had little knowledge of them at the time. We were young, first time home buyers. It was May. The first home we looked at greeted us with a cloud of fragrant pink and white blossoms in the backyard. Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-14572632288073524212013-01-22T10:17:00.000-05:002013-12-03T21:13:21.328-05:00A COLD TUESDAY ON THE DETROIT RIVER
My home thermometer, the one tucked under my warm kitchen window, reads four degrees as I enjoy my morning coffee. The Dossin Great Lakes Museum webcam shows ice flows on the Detroit River. I don't see any ships, though the Boat Nerds map reveals some local tugs, along with US and Canadian Coast Guard boats. One freighter, the Arthur M. Anderson, now on Lake Erie near Toledo Ohio, Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-1889937340310185532013-01-02T09:18:00.000-05:002013-12-04T11:07:20.206-05:00THIS MORNING ON THE DETROIT RIVEROnly seventeen degrees this Wednesday morning January 2, 2013 and the Detroit River looks slushy, but shipping continues on the Great Lakes and I wanted to share these new photos.
These photos were taken from the Detroit River Webcam at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Belle Isle. Check out http://Boatnerd.com/ to discover all things Great Lakes, and do a search on webcams for more great Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-33092531068851116462012-12-27T19:01:00.000-05:002013-12-04T11:40:37.524-05:00GREAT LAKES WEBCAMS
I didn't have to leave the comfort of my home to get these great photos. Recently discovered webcams located at my favorite places around Michigan and thought I'd share them with any Great Lakes and Boat Nerds out there. I grabbed these from the Dossin Great Lakes Museum webcam on Belle Isle, an island in the Detroit River.
Captured this freighter as it passed Belle Isle
Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-69188649122217847272012-11-20T14:13:00.001-05:002013-12-04T11:48:10.754-05:00MY FAILED FRENCH CANADIAN TOURTIERE
French Canadian Tourtière
Tourtière: A kind of meat pie traditionally eaten at Christmas in Canada.
This definition is the simple one, truth is recipes for this traditional French Canadian meat pie abound on the internet today, but this dish goes back centuries to the earliest years of French settlement in North America.
Though I don't often bake, I wanted to make tourtière––to sit in my Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-35870369032342299572012-11-10T22:06:00.001-05:002013-12-12T10:16:32.980-05:00WHY DO YOU THINK THEY'RE CALLED "GREAT" LAKES? Part Five Lake Ontario
Thanks to Wladyslaw for this great shot of the Toronto skyline
Fed by Niagara Falls, last of the Great Lakes chain, Lake Ontario carries all the waters of the Great Lakes 193 miles east into the St. Lawrence River. More than seven hundred miles later, all that water ends up in the Atlantic Ocean.
Smallest of the Lakes, the name Ontarío means “Lake of Shining Waters” in the Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-32269795123134542612012-10-31T19:10:00.001-04:002013-12-04T12:41:02.072-05:00GREAT LAKES MAKE WEATHER CHANNEL'S TROPICAL UPDATE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sandy_Oct_28_2012_16.00(UTC).jpg
Hurricane Sandy
Our thoughts are with the people on the East Coast who were hardest hit by this superstorm.
Donations
Never thought I'd see the day when the
Great Lakes made the Weather Channel's Tropical Update and Hurricane Central, but Sandy was 900 miles wide. Her swath hit from New York and New Jersey Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-45372507163345581502012-10-10T16:15:00.001-04:002013-12-04T15:14:52.552-05:00WHY DO YOU THINK THEY'RE CALLED "GREAT" LAKES? Part four, Lake Erie
Thanks to rabesphoto for this photo of a Frozen Lake Erie
Throughout most of the 17th century the Iroquois tribes settled along Lakes Erie and Ontario prevented exploration of the the lower lakes. These fierce warriors meant torture and death to any Frenchmen who tried to pass through. Instead explorers used the rivers out of Lake Ontario and portaged into Lake Huron Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-70489588682899939092012-09-28T15:48:00.000-04:002013-12-04T15:22:26.363-05:00WHY DO YOU THINK THEY'RE CALLED "GREAT" LAKES? Part Three, Lake Huron
Welcome to Michigan's "Sunrise Side"––The shores of Lake Huron. Much quieter and just a teensy bit nicer than the heavily traveled shores of Lake Michigan––Lake Huron is where you go for true relaxation. Walk its sandy beaches for miles, enjoy a bonfire on the beach, and it begins to feel as if you have its entire 3,827 miles of coastline to yourself.
The residents like it this way, so I'd Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-17573520717081711792012-09-21T17:53:00.002-04:002013-12-04T15:54:32.622-05:00WHY DO YOU THINK THEY ARE CALLED "GREAT" LAKES? Part Two, Lake Michigan
Thanks to Dave Herholz for this photo of Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline
Once again a Frenchman is credited with discovering a Great Lake. Searching for a "South Sea" to the Far East Jean Nicolet left Quebec in July of 1634 with seven Hurons paddling canoes. Lake Michigan must have seemed like an ocean to Jean, because by the time he arrived in Green Bay Wisconsin that Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-25377520864198231772012-08-26T14:33:00.000-04:002013-12-12T11:30:46.090-05:00WHY DO YOU THINK THEY'RE CALLED "GREAT" LAKES? Part One, Superior
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes
These
images of the five Great Lakes—(left to right) Superior, Michigan,
Huron, Erie, and Ontario—show ice beginning to build up around the
shores of each of the lakes, with snow on the ground across virtually
the entire scene. This image is made from observations by the Terra
MODIS instrument on January 27, 2005.
The
Oxford Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-81378718642629924792012-08-10T17:12:00.001-04:002013-12-12T11:49:37.708-05:00WHY NO ONE EVER TRULY CONQUERS THE FRENCHThe French first settled along the Detroit River in 1701. Sixty years later, Detroit was lost to the British and after the American Revolution it became part of the United States. Immigrants from all over the world flooded the region until French was no longer heard on the streets of Detroit.
Yet those first French settlers are not gone. Their names dot the street map of modern Detroit–Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-13362888841113153692012-08-03T15:45:00.002-04:002013-12-12T14:05:49.754-05:00MY PLACE FOR MICHIGAN HISTORY
The Mackinac Bridge joins Michigans Lower and Upper Peninsula
Everyone has heard of Mackinac Island. Situated between Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas, it's been a tourist haunt for over a hundred years, famed for it's Grand Hotel, horse drawn carriages, jetboat ferries and fudge.
But tucked away under the Mackinac Bridge on the lower peninsula is my favorite place to discover Michigan Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-82753266707550717552012-07-23T18:58:00.001-04:002013-12-12T14:28:07.301-05:00THE BLACK ROBES OF NEW FRANCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Marquette
Père Marquette and the Indians
Wilhelm Lamprecht (German 1838-1906)
I once heard the Jesuit order of priests called the Marine Corp of the Catholic Church. In their quest to convert new souls to Christianity the Jesuits were always the first men on the beach, at the forefront of exploration all over the world.
Born in 1491 a year beforeVivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-78010100102786255702012-07-03T19:45:00.003-04:002013-12-12T13:53:25.553-05:00FOOTPRINTS OF THE FRENCH
North America 1750
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_France
When I was in grade school many many ... many years ago, we studied the French and Indian War (1754-63) when Great Britain and France battled it out over their lands in North America.
The teacher explained how one British surprise attack on Quebec City, launched from the Plains of Abraham, won Great Britain all the French landsVivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-46365645125572111562012-07-02T13:24:00.000-04:002013-12-17T16:29:49.198-05:00NOT REALLY A BLOG POST
How the Detroit River Shaped Lives and History
By Jenny Nolan / The Detroit News
FEB 10, 1997, 8:00 PM
This isn't really a blog post, I just ran across an interesting article about the history of the Detroit River and thought I'd post the link for you.
From limestone bedrock that survived the glaciers to the Motor City ... Click and enjoy.
Vivian
HOW THE DETROIT RIVER Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1899790194720347701.post-33432088524710954492012-06-27T18:17:00.000-04:002013-12-17T17:07:12.801-05:00DETROIT, 311 YEARS OLD
The City of Detroit celebrates 311 years of settlement this July 24th.
As a child, growing up near Detroit, I thought the river that ran between Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie had always been lined with smokestacks, factories, mountains of coal, and warehouses. Eventually, genealogy sparked an interest in the history of Detroit.
Research led me to the Clark
Historical Library's Vivian LeMayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07809319467365956722noreply@blogger.com0