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Saint Ignace, usually written as St. Ignace, is a city at the southern tip of the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, bordering the Straits of Mackinac. The population was 2,452 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Mackinac County.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 For travelers coming from the Lower Peninsula, St. Ignace is the gateway to the northern part of the state. St. Ignace Township is located just to the north of the city, but is politically independent. Located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, St. Ignace is at the northern end of the Mackinac Bridge and Mackinaw City is the southern end. The bridge connects the Lower and the Upper peninsulas of Michigan. ==History== St. Ignace is the second-oldest city founded by Europeans in Michigan. Before French contact, Native Americans had inhabited the area for thousands of years. Historic peoples here were predominantly the Iroquoian-speaking ''Wendat'', whom the French called the ''Huron.'' By the 18th century, the ''Anishinaabe'' ''Ojibwe,'' who spoke one of the Algonquian languages, became prominent in the region. Another related Anishinaabe people were the Ottawa. French explorer and priest Jacques Marquette founded the St. Ignace Mission on this site in 1671 and was buried there after his death.〔Sawyer, Alvah Littlefield (1911). ''A History of the Northern Peninsula of Michigan and Its People'', p. 318. The Lewis Publishing Company〕 He named it for St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit religious order, whose priests were active as missionaries across North America. (''Ignace'' is the French version of Ignatius.) Jesuits served at missions to convert First Nations/Native Americans to Catholicism and to share French culture. in 1673, Marquette joined the expedition of Louis Jolliet, a French-Canadian explorer and departed from St. Ignace on May 17, with two canoes and five voyageurs of French-Indian ancestry (Métis).() on a voyage to find the Mississippi River While exploring the region on the ship ''Le Griffon'' with Louis Hennepin, Sieur de La Salle reached St. Ignace on August 27, 1679. Louis de La Porte, Sieur de Louvigny founded Fort de Baude here in 1681 as a fur trading post. It was later directed by Antoine Cadillac. It was closed by the French in 1697.〔Walter Romig, ''Michigan Place Names'', p. 204〕 The Jesuits abandoned the mission in 1705. The Ojibwe, who came to dominate most of the territory of present-day Michigan in the 18th century among Native Americans, were allies of the French in the Seven Years' War against the British. After the British victory in the Seven Years' War, in 1763 they took over the territory of France in North America, including this part of the former New France. After the victory of rebellious colonists in the American Revolutionary War, in 1783 the village was included within the new United States, as part of what became called its Northwest Territory. Originally an important fur trading site in early years of French colonization, St. Ignace declined in importance by the early 19th century. European demand declined for North American furs, and other parts of the economy grew. Both Americans and British-Canadians operated a larger trading center at Sault Ste. Marie, on both sides of the Canadian-US border, until the decline of the fur trade in the 1830s. The fur trade was severely reduced before and during hostilities of the War of 1812, as the United States prohibited British traders from operating across the border, as had been their earlier practice. The Ojibwe allied with the British, their longtime trading partners, during the War of 1812, hoping to reduce encroachment by American pioneers. In 1882, St. Ignace was given economic impetus by the coming of the Detroit, Mackinac and Marquette Railroad, which connected the straits area to the major city of Detroit. It was incorporated as a village on February 23, 1882, and as a city in 1883.〔 It began to be popular as a summer resort and for its connection to Mackinac Island. Since the late 20th century, the city has become a rural destination for heritage tourism and is part of a popular summer regional area for tourism. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「St. Ignace, Michigan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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