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Folder 2

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Contains 6 Results:

The 'Old Fox' was a contract / by Liz Hyman. (Oversized, source unknown) Includes image of old Louis Campau and the Booth painting. Probably from Grand Rapids Press, date unknown.

 File — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates: 1830-1922

A Fortune and a Feud : the Campaus : first of the first families / Howard Silbar. GR Press, Feb. 18, 1979. [Wonderland??] Sketches, map including islands, photo of Campau house, photo of Louie Sophie, photo of older Antoine. (Oversized tabloid, 2 sheets).

 File — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates: 1830-1922

Vol. P. Land Books, Upper Canada Roll C105. Entry for Louis Campau (2 photocopied oversized sheets) July 5, 1832.

 File — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates: 1830-1922

Photocopy of 1850 partial census sheet showing Louis and Sophia Campau family

 File — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates: 1830-1922

1. Record by Albert Hyma about the Account Book by Louis Moran. [Was under Louis Campau 1-3]

 File — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates: 1830-1922

2. The Account Book of Louis Moran (sometimes spelled Maurant) (2 sheets) [Appears to be a transcription of the information]. See also land documents associated with Moran his wife elsewhere in this collection.

 File — Multiple Containers
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...
Dates: 1830-1922