13 Facts About Magdelaine Laframboise

Magdelaine Laframboise supported a Sunday school and other activities at the Catholic Sainte Anne Church.

Magdelaine Laframboise donated land for a new site for the church, and was honored by being buried beneath its altar.

Magdelaine Laframboise moved to Mackinac with Magdelaine and her sisters after the British abandoned Fort St Joseph, ceding the area to the new nation of the independent United States in the aftermath of the American Revolutionary War.

Therese and Magdelaine Laframboise both became fluent in four languages: Ottawa, French, English, and Chippewa.

Magdelaine Laframboise continued to manage several trading posts, and expanded her business throughout the western and northern portions of Michigan's lower peninsula.

Magdelaine Laframboise raised their two children, sending both Josette and Joseph to Montreal for education in French schools.

Magdelaine Laframboise had served since 1774 with the British at Michilimackinac, where the couple married.

Magdelaine Laframboise had begun fur trading and by 1790 built quite a business with his wife's help and her Odawa family connections.

Magdelaine Laframboise supported the first Catholic school for Native American children on Mackinac Island, starting it in her home.

Magdelaine Laframboise was influential in keeping the congregation together in the several years when it did not have a regular priest.

Magdelaine Laframboise lived along the Minnesota River Valley and in Montreal, where his mother traveled to visit him.

Magdelaine Laframboise married Magdeleine "Sleepy Eyes" Sisseton around 1827, a member of the Sioux tribe.

Magdelaine Laframboise spoke French fluently, and was very ladylike in her manners.