The Windsor Star has a highly recommended story related to French legends and ghost stories from the American and Canadian sides of the Detroit River.  A new tour in Windsor uses an 1884 book as basis for a mystic tour of Windsor.  Excerpt:

A red dwarf who cursed the founder of Detroit, hypnotic women in long white gowns who exact justice and a dead hunter who returns for his betrothed in his canoe atop the mist — the rich folklore of the Detroit River is being resurrected in the new Spirits of Sandwich tour.

Many of the stories told in the tour, commissioned by the BIA and led by local actor Rob Tymec of Monkeys With a Typewriter Theatre Company, are from a fascinating but largely forgotten book called Legends of le Detroit.

Written in 1884 by Marie Caroline Watson Hamlin, a francophone living in Detroit, it’s a collection of 31 stories passed down by generations of French Canadians on both sides of the river.

Full story:

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/editorial/story.html?id=ad3732d4-f0b2-490b-8e4f-ab68431c1ea7

Note: Google has scanned the entire text into its database.  The book is available online at the link below:

http://books.google.com/books?id=eFw6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA64&dq=legends+of+le+detroit#PPP13,M1

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