Scope and Contents From the Series: Louis Campau has been credited as the founder of Grand Rapids, Michigan, although there were Baptist missionaries and other fur traders in the area before Campau. His trading post was located on the east side of the Grand River, while the mission settlement was on the west side. This series includes select original documents which have survived, along with reference materials related to the couple. Also, there area materials located in other archival collections, and many...

Scope and Contents From the Series: Included in this Campau Collection are select copies or references to the Louis Moran Account Book, which is the content of the separate Coll. 011. This account book was previously identified as that of Louis Campau. As shown in the select copies of pages from the account book, located in folder 214-1-1, there are several uses of the Campau name, as well as the Moran name, in the French text. Folder 214-1-2 includes documents by Albert Hyma who in 1963 reidentified the account book as that...