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His Transport Grace Viscount Reginald "Golden Halls' Sterling the Second stands as hereditary Warden administering the Lake Saint Clair maritime passageway along with its archipelago islands fishing bounty feeding settlers and sailors alike now crisscrossing Hall family lands frequently as industrial growth transforms Michigan’s untamed interior bounty into available urban commodities. For three generations the viscounts have amassed fortune brokering lumber, grain and immigrant passage all funneled down through the narrow lakes straits corridors into Detroit and the bustling lower interior beyond. The distinguished Sterling bloodline directly traces descent from 14th century Flemish linen and wool merchants who rose to influence and privilege servicing noble English courts, York & London financiers, even Papal Vatican vestment contracts. They invested heavily across the Hanseatic League Baltic and North Sea port trading cities wielding key geostrategic control over overland spice, fur, iron and cod stocks distribution gradually enriching Amsterdam and Antwerp counting houses linked to Italian banking syndicates and Paris fashion brokers catering European elites court aristocracy vanities. As dynastic religious wars subsided amidst rising Westphalian national ambitions, some junior family cadet sons like Wilhelm I ventured west across the Atlantic lured by colonial opportunities before anchoring along the Mackinac Straits junction providing invaluable fur trade post supply transshipments deep into the uncharted North interior initially only accessible by birch bark canoe voyageur brigade relays once spring ice breakup allowed passage again. Now entering his 8th decade hosting governors, industrialists, and merchant princes at his lavish waterfront estate, visionary Viscount Reginald “Golden Halls’ Sterling oversees continued build-out of essential Great Lakes commercial ports, neighbouring tenant farm acreage and inland roadway infrastructure still integrating raw M