19/30 Some of the young men of enterprising spirit were the sons of officers and men who had fought in the Seven Years' War against France and now came to claim their share of the conqueror's spoils. Some men were of Yankee origin, who with their proverbial ability to see a good chance, came to what has always been Canada's greatest city, on the Island of Montreal. It was only half a dozen years after Wolfe's great victory, that a great Montreal trader, Alexander Henry, penetrated the western lakes to Mackinaw--the Island of the Turtle, lying between Lakes Huron and Michigan. Marie, he fell in with a most noted French Canadian, Trader Cadot, who had married a Saulteur wife. |