Note 1186 — Chapter VIII · (continued 2)

The biography of Cadillac has been best traced in Silas Farmer’s Detroit, p. 326. He extended his inquiries among the records of France, and (p. 17) enumerates the grants to him about the straits. Cf. T. P. Bédard on Cadillac in Revue Canadienne, new ser., ii. 683; and a paper on his marriage in Ibid., iii. 104; and others by Rameau, in Ibid., xiii. 403. The municipality of Castelsarrasin in France presented to the city of Detroit a view of the old Carmelite church—now a prison—where Cadillac is buried. An engraving of it is given by Farmer. Julius Melchers, a Detroit sculptor, has made a statue of the founder, of which there is an engraving in Robert E. Roberts’ City of the Straits, Detroit, 1884, p. 14.