Thank you. Again the people of this forum amaze me with their kindness. I am checking all of those suggested pages and have saved copies all of the pdf files from the ABANA page, I hope that is legal.
To answer your questions, Mr. Powers, to my knowledge the fur trade still had French influence in this area until it ended, but although I may be wrong the living musuem we are planning will be a French fur trader's cabin. And there is a living musuem in the area but, but it is a different time period. I believe it is an early to mid 1900's logging camp.
I have not heard of Diderot's Encyclopedia, but I intend to google it and see if their is a copy online that I will be able to peruse.