; d. in 1650 at La Rochelle. Pierre de Puiseaux arrived in Canada shortly after having received from the Compagnie des Cent-Associés, on 15

Saint-Simon also had farming and commercial interests. The census of 1681 shows that he had land under cultivation. In 1700 he took shares in the Compagnie de la Colonie, formed to exploit the beaver

Catharinae Tekawitha virginis indianae positio super virtutibus (Rome, 1940). Claude Dablon, Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des pères de la Compagnie de Jésus

annuels des maisons et des personnes de la province de France de la Compagnie de Jésus; Lettres originales, codex Gal. 109 I, ff.54–55, lettre autographe du P. Julien Perrault au P. Mutius

commission and supplies. He was then assigned by the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France to a supply ship being sent, apparently under the command of Father Philibert

FLEURY DE LA GORGENDIÈRE, JOSEPH DE, merchant, seigneur, agent-general in Canada for the Compagnie des Indes; b. 28 March

Cavelier de La Salle had constructed. On 31 July, when the work was finished, Denonville left a garrison of 100 men under the orders of de Troyes. The winter of 1687 was particularly

livres. On 3 Dec. 1653 Denys obtained a large grant from the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France which ran from Gaspé to Cap Canseau (Canso), and on 30 Jan. 1654 a royal commission as

, the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France was to transform this first land concession into a noble fief. Jean Bourdon received several other seigneuries in

, Bibliothèque sulpicienne, ou histoire littéraire de la Compagnie de Saint-Sulpice (3v., Paris, 1900). André Chagny, Un défenseur de la “Nouvelle-France,” François Picquet

 Chesnaye. Macard was one of the founders and administrators of the Compagnie de la Colonie du Canada, which was created in 1700 to carry on trade in beaver

December 1640 they had received from the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France grants of land in the town and on the outskirts of Quebec, as well as at Sillery, and a seigneury on the north shore of the St

so the fleet of the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France set forth without him. Daniel lost touch with his companion vessels in fog and storms on the Atlantic, and on 28 August entered what is now

the fort. Forrester and 15 of his party did so, but once inside they made the garrison prisoners and tortured Jean Beaujot of the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France to learn the whereabouts of the fort’s

Beaupré Heights, special lieutenant of the seneschal’s court and warehouse clerk of the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France, member of the colony’s first Conseil, first councillor in the Conseil Souverain

, Histoire (1744), III, 363f. Claude Dablon, Relation de ce qui s’est passé de plus remarquable aux missions des pères de la Compagnie de Jésus de la Nouvelle-France les années 1671 et

Lescarbot in his Histoire de la Nouvelle-France: “Poutrincourt … had a piece of land cultivated there to sow wheat and plant vines, as he did with the help of our apothecary, M

PONCET DE LA RIVIÈRE, JOSEPH-ANTOINE, priest, Jesuit, and missionary; b. 7 May 1610 in Paris, son of Jean Poncet de La

that Martin used to descend to the St. Charles River to water his animals. His property amounted to 32 acres in all, 12 received from the Compagnie de la Nouvelle-France in 1635 and 20 as a gift

. et délib., I, 511. Lettres édifiantes et curieuses escrites des missions étrangères par quelques missionnaires de la Compagnie de Jésus (30v., Paris, 1707–73; nouv. éd., 26v., Paris, 1870