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Early Detroit
privations and the dangers that everywhere beset their path a pleasure and a delight. The cheerful and ever gay facility with which they adapted themselves to the life and character of the sons of the forest, enabled them to win their affections, while the calm and ready courage, and even reckless daring with which they met every danger, commanded their admiration and respect.
As early as 1615 the French missionaries penetrated to the region about the Georgian Bay, and established a mission there. In 1641 they reached the Sault St. Marie. In 1660 Father Mesnard reached Keweenaw Bay; in 1665 a mission was established at La Pointe; in 1668, at the Sault Ste.
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