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Excerpt from Mid-America, 1951, Vol. 33: An Historical Quarterly In his report on the colony made later in 1711, Vaudreuil gave a summary of the cadillac-laforest affair to Pontchartrain. He ex plained how impossible it was for Laforest to reach Detroit in the winter, especially since he had been ill. He had come to Montreal and 'was making preparations for going to Detroit in June, when Cadillac arrived in Montreal. Vaudreuil then states: M. De la Mothe, who only came down from that post with the intention of proceeding to France at once made several proposals to me; but as it is well to be on one s guard with him I told him to put them to me in writing. 9 The written reports were enclosed to Pontchartrain. Then Vaudreuil informs us that Cadillac and Laforest went to Que bec to lay their case before the intendant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.