Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union . nted an estate in the former locality whichincluded the island and a considerable tract on theadjacent mainland, and here his oldest children, Made-leine and Antoine were bom. Subsequently his removalto Port Royal was doubtless for the greater securityof his family, on account of the troublesome incursionsof the English. He established his dwelling at PortRoyal and was himself employed with Francis Guyon,the uncle of his wife, in privateering along the Atlanticcoast. In 1690 Sir William Phipps, governor
Michigan as a province, territory and state, the twenty-sixth member of the federal Union . nted an estate in the former locality whichincluded the island and a considerable tract on theadjacent mainland, and here his oldest children, Made-leine and Antoine were bom. Subsequently his removalto Port Royal was doubtless for the greater securityof his family, on account of the troublesome incursionsof the English. He established his dwelling at PortRoyal and was himself employed with Francis Guyon,the uncle of his wife, in privateering along the Atlanticcoast. In 1690 Sir William Phipps, governor of Mas-sachusetts, organized an eipedition in support of theEnglish and attacked and destroyed Port Royal. Cad-illacs home was among those burned. His family weretaken prisoners but afterward released and p>€rmitted toreturn to Quebec. Here the husband and father laterjoined them. Cadillac had evidently commended himself to thepowers that be as an able and resourceful man of afiairs,and in 1694 Frontenac designated him as commandantand sent him to Michilimaciinac to deal with some. CADILLACS STATUE MICHIGAN AS A PROVINCE 133 matters of importance. The English were a constantthorn in the flesh to the French; not only in the mari-time provinces, but in the far distant posts of thewest their influence was felt among the fur traders andthe Indian tribes. The three years which Cadillac spentat Michilimackinac convinced him that the interests ofthe French would be best served by establishing a strongcolony near the head of Lake Erie and thus stop theEnglish encroachments much nearer their source. Hecontemplated not merely a military post with a numer-ous garrison, but in addition a large colony of per-manent settlers. His mind also took in the policy ofundertaking to civilize the Indians by attaching themto such a settlement, teaching them agriculture andother useful arts, instructing them in the Frenchlanguage, overcoming their wandering and improvidenthabits and making of the
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