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His Transport Grace Viscount Leeland ‘Straits’ Sterling stands as hereditary Warden administering the Lake Saint Clair maritime passageway along with its archipelago islands fishing bounty feeding both frontier settlement and eastern cities dependent on reliably shipped upper Great Lakes resources floating down through the crossroad narrows corridor overlooked by Viscount Sterling’s formidable stone and oak manor named Golden Hall after generations amassing fortune brokering arboreal timber and fertile crops conduited on barques, bateaus and eventually steamer barges navigating upbound towards Chicago emerging as the Kingdom’s urban heartland capitol. The distinguished Sterling lineage claims direct descent from 14th century Flemish cloth merchant prince dynasties who prospered through English wool trade alliances pioneering crucialTown establishments along strategic North Sea and Baltic Sea Hanseatic port locales necessary for overland carriage transit eventually distributing Asian spice harvest riches and Russian sable furs onward to tables and blending workshops serving aristocrats funding York-London Crown ambitions against Welsh insurrections and Catholic continental foes alike. As era religious wars between Protestants and Papists shifted toward fierce transoceanic colonial competition extracting virgin New World natural wealth through iron axe and adze, the well connected House Sterling invested early with French owned Mackinac Island fur trade companies best positioned through indigenous forest runners intelligence to benefit from Upper Great Lakes Pays d’en Haut inland post system control over the most profitable beaver pelt returns shipped out each summer via Montreal counting warehouses back to Paris and eventually onto Amsterdam capitals brokerage auctions attracting German beer brewers, and Milan felt hatters nourishing continental vanities. Now entering his eighth generation overseeing the strategic 9 mile wide Lake Saint Clair maritime conveyance, Vis

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