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The French-American Heritage Foundation hosted an event at the St. John the Baptist Church, 18380 Columbus Street, Dayton, MN 55327. Members of the board of the French-American Heritage Foundation, along with other volunteers, have written a book which celebrates the French-speaking pioneers who settled or lived in the Dayton area in the 19th Century. Caroline Meilleur and Mark Labine discussed...

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Greg Cash discusses the French Fur Trade in Minnesota, from the arrival of Médard Chouart des Groseilliers and Pierre Esprit Radisson in Minnesota in the mid 1600’s to the establishment of la Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson (Hudson’s Bay Company) in 1670 and la Compagnie Nord-Ouest (Northwest Company) in 1789 to the building of Fort Snelling and creation of the Indian Agency to control the region...

Pierre Bottineau was born on the Dakota prairie of a French- Canadian father and an Ojibway mother in the early 1800s. He was instrumental in establishing communities there and later b r o u g h t s e t t l e r s t o Northwestern Minnesota. In finding the real Bottineau, Virgil Benoit will focus on identifying major influences on him and how he adopted and expressed these influences ranging fro...

A screening of "Theo's Choice", a documentary exploring the battle to keep the French language alive in Louisiana. The story was told through the eyes of teachers, activists, politicians and students. Filmmaker Thomas Cauvin met for a discussion after the screening. Cauvin is currently a history professor at CSU Fort Collins. Previously, he worked in Lafayette, Louisiana with native French-spea...

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Dr. Marty Guidry is a "Cajun" from Baton Rouge, Louisiana who talked on the Acadian deportation of 1755, with the reasons for the deportation why they deported to the Atlantic seaboard and to France and England, and then into the actual phases of the deportation. He gave his presentation dressed as an Acadian of the 1750s. There are many in Minnesota with Acadian roots.

Mark Labine gave a presentation on the early history of Mendota, including the early French explorers, the St. Peter treaties of 1805 and 1837, (Mendota was originally called St. Pierre or St. Peters), the establishment of Fort Snelling and the early fur traders including Faribault, Dupuis, Sibley, and Bailly, and the migration of the Selkirk Colonists from the Red River land near Winnipeg to t...

Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Hall Saturday, March 17, 2018 - 2:00-4:30 pm Mr. Coulombe, the author of The Pope’s Legion, and Puritan’s Empire: A Catholic Perspective on American History. Coulombe is recognized internationally for his in-depth knowledge of Vatican politics and the influence of Catholicism in America and Europe. His international articles have appeared in the New Oxford Review, Nat...

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