Abstract
Maps dating to the 17th and 18th centuries and written accounts are used to identify a number of contemporary posts en route from Montreal to Detroit/Pontchartrain which otherwise receive little or no mention in the historical record. Archaeological evidence from the undocumented mid-18th-century Floating Bridge site, near Kingston, Ontario, is interpreted as a possible trader's post/Metis habitation occupied following the destruction of Fort Frontenac and prior to the post-1763 British occupation of the area. Evidence is presented for its use by civilians, who selected the site primarily for its environment rather than as a point of intersection on well-travelled trade routes. It is suggested that this small fur trade habitation may be representative of other 17th- and 18th-century French Régime posts and hunting cabins on the Great Lakes' frontiers of New France.
DOI
10.22191/neha/vol14/iss1/2
Recommended Citation
Brown, Donald A.
(1985)
"French Occupation of the Lakes Ontario and Erie Drainage Basins 1650-1760,"
Northeast Historical Archaeology:
Vol.
14
14, Article 2.
https://doi.org/10.22191/neha/vol14/iss1/2
Available at:
https://orb.binghamton.edu/neha/vol14/iss1/2
