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Send her along; Envoyons de l'avant
Audio | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sung in French by the male Choir of the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). Used with permission.
Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois (detail)
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The roof support system has diagonal wind braces, a characteristic that shows a transitional building style as the French culture in the area became "Americanized" following the end of the American Revolution.
It's the Oars; C'est l'aviron
Audio | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sung in French by the male Choir of the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). Used with permission.
Pierre Martin/Boismenue House, Dupo, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The vertical log construction of the Pierre Martin house was revealed when the exterior clapboard was removed. The vertical walnut timbers are anchored at top and bottom by wooden pegs, a technique called mortise and tendon, which requires great skill. The spaces between the logs, which were groved along their narrow edges, were filled with stone nogging, or "pierrotage.
Voyageur holding paddle
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington of a voyageur holding his paddle, which is almost as tall as he is. His other hand is hooked onto his braided sash, which typically held pipes, pouches of tobacco, and other supplies. A vest, leather footgear, and a jaunty cap with a tassel complete his outfit.
18372--Illinois River and Valley from Starved Rock, New State Park, Ill.
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Black and white stereograph slide showing the Illinois River.
Cahokia Village
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Winter scene at Cahokia from a lithograph by J. S. Wild, published in 1841. Horses roam freely in the Commons. A couple in a sleigh are pulled by a horse. Another couple walks in the snow, the woman keeping her hands warm in a muff, and the man by shoving his hands in his pockets. Two children play in the distance. ...
The Coureur de Bois and the Indian
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A fur trader stands by a birch bark canoe and shakes the hand of an Indian. A second fur trader is seated in the canoe.
St. Gemme-Amoureaux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The overhanging roof creates a gallery that probably once extended around all sides of the house. There is a steep stairway on the gallery that provides access to the second floor.
Pierre Menard Home, Ellis Grove, Illinois
Multi-Page Item | 8 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Collection of views of the Pierre Menard Home.
My Blackbird; Mon Merle
Audio | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sung in French by the male Choir of the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). Used with permission.
A-rolling my ball; En roulant ma boule
Audio | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sung in French by the male Choir of the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). Used with permission.
French Colonial House
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This one-story house shows the typical overhanging eaves and vertical log construction of French Colonial structures. A short fence encloses the property.
Fort de Chartres, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The third Fort de Chartres, a limestone structure with four bastions, was built by the French in the Illinois Country in 1753, replacing two earlier wooden structures.
Landscape with Birch Trees
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington. Paper birch trees grow well in the cool climate of the upper Great Lakes. The bark, which peels off in large sheets, can be used to make canoes.
Guibourd-Valle House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The post-on-sill house has a gallery across the front that can be entered from either end. There are two entrances into the house from the gallery. The attic contains Norman truss work with huge oak beams.
Portrait of Jacques Marquette
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)This well-known image of Father (Pere) Marquette is from a painting by an unknown artist.
Bolduc House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Bolduc House has a stockade or property fence (pieux debouts), typical of many French homes, which encloses its yard and backyard garden, as well as outbuildings. This provided security and kept domestic animals from straying off the property.
Cahokia Courthouse
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Images of Cahokia Courthouse from different angles
Zimmerman Archaeological Site, near Utica, Illinois
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Archaeological dig at the Zimmerman Site
French Trade Bucket Bale/Ear
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The diameter of the rim is 12.2 cm. The height of the bale ears is 5.7 cm. The bucket bale is made of iron. The bale ears are welded to the rim. The lower portion of the bucket would have been made out of metal, probably sheet copper or brass. Bucket bales or kettles usually nested for compact shipping.
Lark; Alouette
Audio | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sung in French by the male Choir of the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). Used with permission.
On the Way to Paris; Passant par Paris
Audio | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Sung in French by the male Choir of the Universite de Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press). Used with permission.
Amoureaux House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Multi-Page Item | 2 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The Amoureaux House, built in 1785, is a French vernacular post in ground (poteaux-enterre) construction. It is one of three in Ste. Genevieve and only five in the U.S. In the bedroom, on the fireplace mantel are candlesticks, goblets, and a mantel clock.
Church of the Holy Family, Cahokia
Multi-Page Item | 4 pages | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)See individual images for descriptions.
Bequette-Ribault House, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Constructed of red cedar posts set into a trench in the ground (poteaux en terre), this house was built around the turn of the nineteenth century. The spaces between the vertical logs were filled with a mud-plaster chinking (bouzillage). This house is located on St. Mary's Road a short distance out of town.
Sturbridge Commons, Massachusetts
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The commons, an open area of Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts, were laid out with buildings grouped around the edges.
Voyageur
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)A drawing by Frederic Remington of a voyageur. A vest, leather footgear, and a jaunty cap with a tassel complete his outfit.
French fur trader
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)The trader wears a mix of European and Native American clothing, and carries his musket, hatchet, and a knife. Fur pelts are slung over his shoulder.
Voyageurs portaging canoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington. Large packs of supplies and goods were carried overland, sometimes for miles, on the backs of the voyageurs, when necessary.
Voyageurs around a campfire
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington. Firelight reflects on the weary faces of the voyageurs as they enjoy smoking their pipes at the end of the day.
Voyageurs in a canoe
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Drawing by Frederic Remington. Sometimes the voyageurs transported passengers, as well as cargo.
Conner Prairie Living History Museum Interpreter
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Costumed interpreter combing flax, part of the process to prepare the fibers for spinning into linen.
Map of Marquette and Jolliet Route
Image | Teaching with Digital Content (Cultural Heritage Community)Pierre Marquette and Louis Jolliet successfully located the Mississippi River and traveled down it in two birch bark canoes, accompanied by five voyageurs. On the return trip they chose the Illinois River and then the Des Plaines River, where it was easier to paddle upstream. From the Des Plaines River it was a short portage to Lake Michigan.

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