This is the story of two small rural communities' seven-year (and counting) effort to help the community conserve its architectural heritage: century-old village churches that were replaced by a new church. The two communities, Saint-Joachim and Pointe-aux-Roches (also known as Stoney Point), are located in South Western Ontario, some 50km (30 miles) from Windsor-Detroit.

What gives special significance to this struggle is that the two villages are part of a regional French-Canadian community that traces its roots to 1701, when Antoine Laumet, Sieur de Lamothe-Cadillac established Fort Pontchartrain du détroit, now called simply, Detroit.

The tri-centenial presence of French-speaking Canadians in this part of Canada, hundreds of kilometres from Québec, is a living reminder of an important part of Canada's history, when the initial colony called New France extended its territorial claims from the Saint-Lawrence to the Rockies, with a deep southern thrust along the Mississippi and its tributaries.