Langlois Family Documents - Historical Maps

     The following photos were taken of a very large map (known as the Collet Map) hanging on the wall of the Burton Historical Collection at the Detroit Main Library.  If you get an opportunity, it is certainly worth visiting.  To think that our ancestors are included among the very few names listed at that time is really amazing.  The map itself hangs on the wall next to the stairway to the second story inside the collection.  Mr. Clarence Burton (an well known Detroit historian) paid 300 Francs in 1890 to have this map copied from the Paris original.  

photographs taken 2 Feb 2003 

pointing to the Langlois homestead

Topographical map of Detroit  1796

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 Landscape view - of the Detroit River, Windsor below the Fort of Detroit.  Paren(t) is farm 12 and Langlois farm 13.

Closeup of the Paren(t) and Langlois homesteads.  Buildings are visible near the river.

List of property owners 1 - 13.

List of the lots situated on the south side of the River

      1. Marantle

      2. Languiste

      3. Denoir

      4. Mayeux

      5. Tanise

      6. Bouran

      7. Gadette

      8. Reaume

      9. Goyau

    10. Goyau

    11. L'Esperance

    12. Paran

    13. Langlois

    14. Labutte

    15. D'bitre

There is another list of early Canadian owners, Lots 1 -35.  Some of the lots do not have a name as property owner listed.  This is property located before Fort Malden but east of the Detroit river.

  1. Gervais

  2. Lafleur

  3. Lafleur

  4. Jos. H. Etienne.

  5. Legrand

  6. Baptiste le beau

  7. Lebeau fils.

  8. Laronde

  9. Robert

  10. Pilette

  11. Miloche

  12. Drouiard

  13. Baby

  14. Grenor

  15. C Campau

 16. Tamisier

 17. L'Esperance

 18. 

  19. St. Louis

  20. 

 21. Tadot

 22.

 23.

  24.

  25. Reaume

 26. Paret

 27.

 28.

  29.

  30.

 31.

 32. Douiar

 33. Binot

  34. St. Remy

  35. Bergeron