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Early Detroit
In 1694 De la Motte was appointed by the celebrated Count Frontenac then in his old age, and for the second time Governor-general of Canada, to-the command of Mackinaw. This, with the exception of Montreal and Quebec, was the most important post in all Canada. It was the great center of Indian trade and Indian influence. It was founded first at St. Ignace, on the north side of the strait, in 1671, by the ever to be revered Father Marquette, who here sought a refuge and a home for his band of Christianized Hurons and his Kish Ka-kons, who had been driven from the beautiful
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