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"Comm<strong>and</strong>er of the Coureurs de Bois" rather<br />

than a garrison <strong>and</strong> neither LaHontan,<br />

Cavelier, Joutel or the Jesuits mentioned a<br />

fort during the 1690s. De Buade was the<br />

family name of Count Frontenac <strong>and</strong> it is<br />

almost certain that no post would have been<br />

given this name while La Barre <strong>and</strong> Denonville<br />

were governors. It was probably established<br />

after Frontenac returned to New France in<br />

1689 <strong>and</strong> placed Louvigny in charge of<br />

Michilimackinac in 1690 with 175 men.<br />

Cadillac's Memoir of the Straits Area. -<br />

The most extensive description of the area is<br />

included in a memoir prepared by Cadillac who<br />

was comm<strong>and</strong>er of what was most certainly a<br />

going military <strong>and</strong> trading establishment<br />

between 1694 <strong>and</strong> 1697. By 1695 Cadillac<br />

observed that the size of the St. Ignace<br />

settlement had grown to a village of sixty-<br />

two houses, a garrison of two hundred men,

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