Ft. Pontchartrain at Detroit: A Guide to the Daily Lives of Fur Trade and Military Personnel, Settlers, and Missionaries at French Posts Book

When Cadillac departed from Montreal in June 1701, he led an expedition of 100 voyagers and soldiers in 25 birchbark canoes. Sent by King Louis XIV, he had been ordered to establish Fort Pontchartrain at Detroit as the new center of fur trade and military power in the interior regions.

Timothy J. Kent has gleaned information from records such as the cargo manifest for the expedition, inventories of private households at the fort, and hundreds of other period documents, to create this unique reference work. The items listed in these records have been divided into the various activities which took place in daily life at such a fort. An extensive chapter is devoted to each activity: canoe transportation; provisions, cooking, and eating; hunting and warfare, trapping, and fishing; buildings, hardware, and furnishings; woodworking, metalworking, and masonry-working; recreation; trade and commerce; and more.