ILLINOIS HISTORY TEACHER Editor Keith A. Sculle Advisory Board, Volume 12:2 Kay J. Carr Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois Patricia Grimmer Carbondale Community High School Carbondale, Illinois Harold Harrison (retired) Oregon High School Oregon, Illinois Robert H. Lombard Western Illinois University Macomb, Illinois David Maurer (retired) Eastern Illinois University Charleston, Illinois Michael A. Solliday (retired) Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Illinois ILLINOIS HISTORIC PRESERVATION AGENCY Board of Trustees Julie Cellini, Chair Pamela A.Daniels J. Douglas Donenfeld Edward M. Genson Laurie Ann Hoffman Elizabeth I. Smith Roger Taylor Director Robert J. Coomer Chief, Office of Constituent Services Evelyn R. Taylor

CONTENTS Introduction .......................................... 1 B. Pierre Lebeau, Guest Editor Colonial Illinois: The Lost Colony ........................2 - 10 Carl J. Ekberg Curriculum Materials Melissa Schmitt-Crafton French Colonial Survivors in the Illinois Country .........11-17 Margaret Kimball Brown Curriculum Materials Rachel Steibel French Women and Family Life in Post-Colonial Illinois ....... 18 - 27 Erin I. Bishop Curriculum Materials Lynnea Magnuson French Canadians in the Kankakee Valley ..........28-39 Caroline B. Brettell Curriculum Materials Melissa Craig Bibliography .................. 40 Contributors' Biographies Inside Back Cover