Wilmont Kreis
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The Bard
1703 or 1704???
The long march
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Who/What? Is Andrew?
The Raid
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St. Clair Flats
Tecumseh
Father Gabriel Richard
Woodward's plan for new Detroit
Seal of Detroit
Sacagawea's Child
Toussaint Charbonneau
Route of Lewis and Clark
Statue of Antoine Cadillac, Detroit
Lewis and Clark Journal
Book Five
Picnics
Hamtramck takes control of Detroit for America
Anthony Wayne
Battle of Saratoga
Brown's Tavern on Harsens Island
Chief Pontiac
The St. Clair Flats, Lake St. Clair
Voyageurs route west
Old Detroit seen from across the Detroit River
Niagara Falls
Detroit Public Library home of Burton Collection
Old Detroit seen from across the Detroit River
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The Maroon Bells
The walk to Longshot
The stack from hell
Sleeping Ariadne
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The most expensive route
THE HOOK
HEALTHCARE FINANCE FOR DUMMIES
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COMING SOON!
Old Citadel of Quebec
General Braddock
Forks of the Ohio River
Michigan Habitant Heritage
Vérendrye monument
Pierre Roy
Pontiac
Book Three: Peace and War
Detroit today
LaSalle's Boat: The Griffin
Replica of old Fort Michillimackinac today. Mackinac Bridge came later.
Antoine Cadillac
Charlesbourg, Quebec St. Charles de Bromee Cemetery Today
Book Five: The City in the Wilderness
Relations of the Jesuits
Jesuits in Quebec
Henri
The Allards Book Two: The Hunter
Opiates can ruin lives
Coming Next The Pain Doc
An old home near the Cass Corridor that gave me the inspiration for the Tower Light Mission.
Detroit Public Library, Main Branch
Department of Justice
Hilberry Theater on Wayne State University campus
A treasure on the Cass Corridor
From the Cass Corridor
The Corridor
Book Seven: The Witch
Book Eight: The Chief
Francois* Allard
Quebec City
Detroit Public Library, Main Branch
Driving force of New France - The beaver
Winter in Quebec
Madeleine de Roybon with the Filles de Roi
Les Filles de Roi
Artanne sur Indre: Church and Abbey
Artannes sur Indre
Filles de Roi in 1667
Here is an idealized painting of Les Filles du Roi arriving in Quebec.
Cliffs of Etretat, last view of France as Francois sails to the New World.
Charnel house and old plague cemetery, Rouen, Normandie, France.
Researching in Blacqueville
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AlgonquinsAugust 26, 2013
The Allard Series Native American characters are for the most part fictitious with the exception of the few famous characters such as Pontiac and Tecumseh. I drew their characters from French-Canadian histories, folk tales, and the stories of my ancestors. I would be the first to admit that I have romanticized them. The family of Henri (Book One) follows the Allards into the later volumes. They were Christian as were many Canadian Algonquin having been converted by the Jesuits. They lived and worked closely with the Allards. This was much more common in New-France than in New-England.
IroquoisAugust 21, 2013
In the British Colonies to the south of Quebec, dwelt a group of natives called, Iroquois, again a group of many tribes sharing a similar language. Generally agrarian, less nomadic, and more aggressive, in my view the Iroquois were as different from the Algonquin as the English settlers were from their French counterparts. Although the English and Iroquois did not share the amicable relationship enjoyed by the French and Algonquin, they did frequently bond in the long term struggle between the two European colonies, and these alliances helped shape the history if eastern North America well past the American war for independence more than a century after the immigration of François Allard to Quebec.
Native CanadiansAugust 14, 2013
It would be inconceivable to describe life in early Quebec without the native people. The predominant group was Algonquin, a collection of many tribes sharing a similar language. Generally hunting nomads, the Algonquin formed an amicable relationship with the French settlers and both groups were influenced by the other. Natives occasionally lived and worked on the farms of the French-Canadians and Jean-Baptiste Allard and his friend, Joseph, formed a life-long attachment that followed them through the adventures of Book Two: The Hunter.
Early rural QuebecAugust 11, 2013
The second book of The Allard Series, The Hunter, turns from the life of François Allard to follow that of his son, Jean-Baptiste. While his immigrant parents are products of the France and the old world, Jean-Baptiste is every inch a product of Quebec. Failing to share his parents’ passion for farming, Jean-Baptiste is drawn to the thrill of the wilderness, and along with his native best-friend, Joseph, he embarks on a life of hunting, fishing, trapping and exploration in the brave new world.
The Allards Book Two: The HunterAugust 7, 2013
THE ALLARDS BOOK TWO: THE HUNTER: The Trailer
On a bright summer day in 1689, an eleven year-old boy and his native friend happen upon an Iroquois raiding party. Through ingenuity, knowledge of the wilderness and dumb luck, Jean-Baptiste Allard and his friend, Joseph, help foil the raid and save their small village in rural Quebec from disaster. Some years later, an unscrupulous explorer, Antoine Cadillac, hears their story and enlists the young men to aid him in his exploits into the western frontier. Together in Book Two: The Hunter they endure the hardships of the wilderness while sharing the exhilaration of exploration and discovery. As they help found such posts as Detroit, Michilimackinac, and New Orleans, they meet the famous and the unknown who will accompany them and their descendants as the Allard Saga continues. Heros of The Pain DocAugust 4, 2013
Well, enough about drugs. How about the heroes of the book? I see them as three: Joe Brownstone for his honesty and ethics which again I feel represent most physicians today, Luis Martinez for finally stepping up to the plate and especially Julie Frye who could stand by no longer in spite of the potential consequences. Now I’ll move on to lighter fare and return to the Allard Series with Book Two: The Hunter.
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