Madame Cadillac makes Detroit a home.(Marie Therese Cadillac)(Brief article)

Michigan History for Kids Magazine | September 22, 2001 | Copyright

In early September 1701, thirty-one-year-old Marie Therese Cadillac left Montreal, Canada, in a canoe. She was traveling to join her husband, Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, at his new settlement called Fort Pontchartrain du De Troit. This wilderness fort later became Detroit. Cadillac wanted his wife to come to the fort to prove that families could live there. Many people told Madame Cadillac that she should not go, but she said, "Do not waste your pity on me, dear friends. I know the hardships of the journey ... yet I am eager to go."

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