. On 17 and 18 July the brothers captured, in the Gulf of St Lawrence, four ships with 400 passengers (including recently recruited colonists) belonging to the Compagnie des Cent

Provence, Guyenne, and Dauphiné, director of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, and future governor of New France. The Lotbinière family probably came to Canada with Lauson, who landed at Quebec on 13 Oct

, after the king took over the administration of the colony from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés in 1663); d. the night of 5–6 May 1665 at Quebec and was buried there on 7 May

DUBOIS DAVAUGOUR, PIERRE, baron, governor of New France 1661–63 (the last to serve under the jurisdiction of the Compagnie des Cent

la Nouvelle-France (called also the Compagnie des Cent-Associés)—formed that same year, 1627, and given the right to trade with Indigenous people and to grant seigneuries while encouraging settlement

settlers were clamouring for a change. Moreover, tired of the inertia of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, which could no longer fulfil its obligations, they were asking for its dissolution. Louis XIV

; the merchants, enjoying a monopoly, would be less afraid of investing money and being paid only after the sale of the furs. But the Compagnie des Cent

divided into 20 squads. Each squad had as its leader a corporal elected by a majority. That year, the Compagnie des Cent-Associés finally ceased to exist

emigrate. But in the spring of that year he had to meet the competition of the powerful Compagnie des Cent-Associés, which Cardinal Richelieu had organized in Paris to control the destinies of New France and

Roquemont de Brison in the name of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés. Two months later, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence, Roquemont was obliged to surrender to the

entreaties of the queen regent, Anne of Austria, who insisted upon beholding this martyr. Before her and before Mazarin and the directors of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, he bore witness to the wretchedness

a son named Jean, in about 1636. Having come as a settler rather than an indentured employee, Jehan obtained a land grant in the Beaupré seigneury, which the Compagnie des Cent-Associés was then

, organist, business man, and seigneur; baptized 21 Sept. 1645 at Quebec, son of Jean Jollyet, a wheelwright in the service of the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, and of Marie d’Abancourt; d. 1700

at first turned a deaf ear; the Compagnie des Cent-Associés refused passage to Mme de La Peltrie, who applied too late. Finally Marie de l’Incarnation, Marie

exception of the Compagnie des Cent Associés (1627), which, however, got off to a disastrous start from which it never recovered. The Communauté des Habitants took over entire responsibility for the country

uncle in the Compagnie des Cent-Associés and a brother who was a Sulpician at Montreal; he had, in addition, grown up in a city oriented towards Canada and situated in an archdiocese to which the Church