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Early Detroit
Marie; in 1671, at St. Ignace, Mackinaw, and soon after at St. Joseph. For obvious reasons the beautiful regions bordering on the Detroit, and the lower part of our peninsula, were not visited as early or as freely by the French as the regions bordering on the upper lakes.
From the days of Champlain, who espoused the cause of the Algonquins that inhabited the valley of the St. Lawrence, the Iroquois became the inveterate and hereditary foes. of the French, and they controlled the route to the West through Lake Ontario, the Niagara River and Lake Erie.
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