# Clarence J. Monette

Clarence J. Monette (January 13, 1935, Lake Linden - October 30, 2012, Calumet) was a prolific author and historian from Michigan's Copper Country, writing extensively on Copper Country history. He has published more than sixty books and has written numerous outdoor survival guides.

## Biography

Clarence J. Monette was born on January 13, 1935, to a Peter and Isabelle (née Laverdiere) Monette in the village of Lake Linden, Houghton County, Michigan. Monette graduated from the Lake Linden-Hubbell High School in the year of 1953.
Monette is known to have served in the United States Army as a trained medical specialist and operating room and food specialist. He subsequently attended Suomi College in Hancock for a semester prior to transferring to the Michigan Technological University (MTU). He was an ROTC instructor at MTU from 1966 until his retirement in the year of 1988. Monette also conducted administrative and personnel work for the ROTC program. Throughout his lifetime, Monette wrote more than sixty Copper Country history books and a fair amount of outdoor survival guides.
Monette was an active member of quite a few groups inclusive of Post 90 of the American Legion, the Houghton County Historical Society, the Lake Linden Sportsman's Association, the Quincy Mine Hoist Association, the Keweenaw County Historical Society, the Copper Range Historical Society and the Isle Royale Natural History Association. Monette also served on the MTU Faculty Association. He was active with the Boy Scouts and served as a Scout Master for a number of years. In addition to the aforesaid, Monette was also a previous member of the Elks and the Lake LL-H Lions.

## Selected works
### Books

The following are all books in Monette's series, titled "A Local History Series".
* Cor-Ago, A Lake Linden Medicine Company
* A Copper Country Logger's Tale
* Gregoryville - The History of a Hamlet Located Across from Lake Linden, Michigan
* White City - The History of an Early Copper Country Recreation Area
* Some Copper Country Names and Places
* The History of Lake Linden, Michigan
* The History of Jacobsville and its Sandstone Quarries
* The History of Copper Harbor, Michigan
* The History of Eagle Harbor Michigan
* Lake Linden's Yesterday - A Pictorial History - Volume I
* The History of Eagle River, Michigan
* Joseph Bosch and the Bosch Brewing Company
* Copper Falls - Just a Memory
* The Calumet Theater
* Early Days in Mohawk, Michigan
* Lake Linden's Yesterday - A Pictorial History - Volume II
* The Keweenaw Waterway
* A Brief History of Ahmeek, Michigan
* All About Mandan, Michigan
* Hancock, Michigan Remembered, Volume I
* The Settling of Copper City, Michigan
* Lake Linden's Yesterday - A Pictorial History - Volume III
* Painsdale, Michigan - Old and New
* Some of the Best from C&H News and Views, Volume I
* Hancock, Michigan Remembered - Churches of Hancock, Volume II
* Ojibway, Michigan, A Forgotten Village
* Laurium, Michigan's Early Days
* Delaware, Michigan, its History
* Lake Linden's Living History - 1985
* Some of the Best From C&H News and Views, Volume II
* The Gay, Michigan Story
* Early Red Jacket and Calumet in Pictures, Volume I
* Lake Linden's Disastrous Fire of 1887
* Phoenix, Michigan's History
* Freda, Michigan, End of the Road
* Houghton in Pictures
* The Copper Range Railroad
* Lac La Belle
* Trimountain and its Copper Mines
* Early Red Jacket and Calumet in Pictures, Volume II
* Upper Peninsula's Wolverine
* Redridge and its Steel Dam
* The Mineral Range Railroad
* Winona and the King Philip Locations
* Atlantic Mine - Photographs from the Harold H. Heikkinen Collection
* Some of the Best From C&H News and Views, Volume III
* Allouez, New Allouez and Bumbletown
* Some Fatal Accidents in the Atlantic, Baltic, Champion, Trimountain and Winona Copper Mines
* Early South Range, Michigan, Volume I
* Central Mine - A Ghost Town
* Baltic, Michigan
* Keweenaw Central Railroad and the Crestview Resort
* Clifton & the Cliff Mine
* Dollar Bay, Michigan
* Houghton County's Streetcars and Electric Park
* Camp Sidnaw - A World War II German Prisoner of War Camp