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Historians and family members gathered at Fort Michilimackinac in
Mackinaw City to celebrate Michigan's first Jew.
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Jewish Historical Society of Michigan,
the state marked the 200th anniver-
sary of the uprising with a plaque at
the entrance to the fort, commemorat-
ing Solomons as "Michigan's First
Jewish Settler."
As part of Michigan's second oldest
state park, Fort Michilimackinac has
undergone intensive archaeological
research and thorough restoration, and
Solomons' trading house has been
faithfully rebuilt.
Inside, a wax figure of Solomons
stands by his desk in front of a fire-
place, surrounded by goods, including
bales of beaver pelts.
For the last 40 years, costumed his-
torical interpreters have re-enacted the
Pontiac uprising each summer for
tourists. The Solomons reunion was
timed to coincide with the staged bat-
tle.
Many Solomons descendants also
posed for photographs with a histori-
cal interpreter in dress uniform and
three-pointed hat, who has portrayed
their ancestor for the last 21 years.
In the 1770s, Solomons built up a
string of successful trading posts north
of Lake Superior, prompting rivals in
the Hudson's Bay Company to refer to
him in correspondence as "that illiter-
ate Jew.
But according to Godfrey, he was far
from illiterate.
"As a prominent member of the
Montreal Hebrew Congregation, he
was recorded in its minutes as leading
its services and reading in Hebrew," he
said.
Like his fellow fur traders, Solomons
often traveled by canoe from the Sault
Ste. Marie area to attend High
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Holidays services in Montreal.
When his young son Joseph died in
1778, he sought to bury him in the
Jewish cemetery in Montreal. The
congregation consented but inserted a
rule into its constitution immediately
afterward stating that uncircumsized
males could never be buried there.
In the 1780s Solomons returned
with his family to Michilimackinac
and lived on Mackinac Island with
other fur traders. Archaeologists have
examined the grounds around his fam-
ily's living quarters and concluded that
he adhered to kosher laws.
For the High Holidays of 1804, he
traveled to New York because the
Montreal synagogue had closed. The
records of New York's Shearith Israel
Congregation show that he gave chari-
ty that October and died shortly after-
ward without returning home.
Although Solomons is regarded as
Michigan's first Jewish settler,
Michigan's Upper Peninsula was actu-
ally part of Quebec until the War of
1812, said Godfrey, who calls
Solomons an important Canadian his-
torical figure, albeit one largely neg-
lected by scholars until recently.
Ezekiel Solomons is one of numer-
ous Jewish pioneers between 1740 and
1867 whose exploits are detailed in
Search Out the Land. The book focuses
on "the significant role played by Jews
in British North America in the fight
for civil and political rights."
"We all expected the Jews came after
the pogroms started in the 1880s and
that we came to someone else's coun-
try," Godfrey said. "That's absolutely
untrue. We were part of it from the
very beginning."
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