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Originally Posted by Andy6
I remember stories of there being (or having been) some French speakers along the Michigan shore of Lake Huron, down around Alpena somewhere.
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There were some all over the middle part of the U.S. from the Great Lakes on down. Places like Bourbonnais and Kankakee, Illinois south of Chicago, Ste-Geneviève and Cape Girardeau south of St Louis in Missouri.
Just look at the place names all over that area.
EDIT: Madonna is from Michigan and is of French Canadian origin on her mother's side. Her mother was Madonna Louise Fortin. She's a very distant cousin of Céline Dion in fact.