The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1891-12-19

heroic Marquette nlm6elI.
In the month of June, 1871, on the
site of the present st. Ignace, Father
Marqutte erected the first temporary
chapel and his own ''cabane.'' and sur.
rounded by his Hurons passed the win
ter, With the coming of the early
spring he departed with Joliet on a
voyage of discovery, and the following
year his successors, Fathers Nouvel and
Pierson, built the new. or second, HUI
ron church, on the particular spot where
the more famous missionary was after
wards buried. The position ofth1s church
is now definitely known, and the record
tells that 1t served the Indians for near
~ twenty-five years, until it was finally
DESTROYED by fire. In the meantime,
and closely following Marquette's de-
parture, came several bands of Hurons
and kindred tribes known as Algon-
qpins, who settled a little to the north
of st. Ignace, where they built the Al
gonquin church, in which it is known
Father Hennepin officiated, but whose
later history, save tlm knowlege that
nearly thirteen hundred lived around
its stockade, IS lost. These Algonquins,
however, abandoned their church and
moved still farther north, as is evidenced
by the finding of Indian tools and i'm"
plements on the northern bluff over
looking the present town. Other Al
gonuuins came still later and settled on
the shore of Lake Michigan, west Of
the Point, and from the separation of
these two villages Of the same nation
arose the building by Father Henry
Nonvel OF the church known as ST..
francis Borgia. after one of the gen
erals of the society, which sent out mis-
sionarles to the new world. Father
Enjabran aided and finally succeeded
Father Nouvel in the care of this chapel,
end in Duluth's account Of st. Ignace,
dated 1880 81. he mentions him as s'the
missionary of St. Frances Bosgias.' y
THUS far it was all pure Indian his
tory until 1877, when French settlers
began to to mentioned, the fur and corn
trade being their principal occupation.
La Sale arrived at the Point in l779.
on his famous expedition on the Grit
fon, one of the Oldest of crafts and the
first sailing vessel on the upper lakes,
and he naturally created quite a COM
motion, which was duly chronicled.
Shortly after the visit most of the In
dams were withdrawn to Detroit. and
as nearly all of the French traders went
with them, old St. lgnace was deserted
except by few Of the roughesC of the
two races, between whom there was
continual strife until in 1897, when
nearly all Of these few remaining had
disappeared, Count Frontenac, gov.
ernor of Canada, urged that the post be
re-established, and his advice was fol
lowed.
After a great treaty between all the
Indians and the French, signed in Mon
treal in 17O1 (rhe same year Detroit was
founded) The Ottawas Of st. Ignace
demanded that their old pastor, Father
Enjabran, be restored to them, and that
. the liquor trade be prohibited in their
country; so that st. Ignace is the
home, the birthplace of prohibition in
this country, and the Indians were and
are on record as the first prohibitionists
There was peace for period of q few
years then, until the missionaries left
the place in 17O5. burning the church
before leaving. Fifteen years later the
inquirer fnds mention Of Charleyoix s
first visit. For nearly fifty. years sue.
ceeding, the post remained stationary
and under the French flag. But at the
close OF the French and Indian war,
when Quebec and Montreal fell. ali that
French territory passed into the pos.
session Of the English, who occupied
St. Ignace in 1861. Two years later Pom.
tiac entered into his famous conspiracy
with the English which ended unsuc.
cessfully, but owing to the danger from
attacks, in 1880 the British moved to
Mackinac island, on the plateau OF
which they builta fort, the remains Of
which constitute part Of the present
structure. st. Ignace fell into secOn-
Diary importance as a military post, and
remained thus until, iii pursuance Of q
treaty in 1896. the United States took
possession Of Michilimackinac old Mack
inaW and the island. In 1872, folloWin2 e
Hulls disgraceful surrender Of Detroit,
and the whole country tributary to that
post, these points Of vantage again
came under the British colors, until on
July 18th, 1916, on the conclusion Of
peace between this country and England
American troops once more occupied
Fort Macklnac and ST. Ignace, which
have remained American territory ever
since. lz3ss
Chicago police are doiag well these
times. They are like rainb nboWs, FOL
they never appear until the storm i
over.