SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, CHARLES DE

MOTIN (Mottin), JEANNE (Menou d’Aulnay ; Saint-Étienne de La Tour)

SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR (Turgis), CLAUDE DE

SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR (Turgis), CHARLES DE

SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, AGATHE (Marie-Agathe) DE (Bradstreet; Campbell)

), Acadian heroine, wife of Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour; baptized 18

 Tour and his men at Cap de Sable. While there, he traded for furs to help pay for the voyage. The favourable report he carried back to the company helped win for La Tour the title of lieutenant

by Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour in about 1625, had been captured by the English

Saint-Étienne de La Tour and signed the marriage contract. The following year he was present at the capture of Port-Royal by

Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour between 1633 and 1636, but we do not know at what date he had entered his service. Lomeron seems to

Saint-Étienne de La Tour at Saint John and Nicolas Denys at Cape Breton were also active. His agent

ACM, B.187. Candide de Nant, Pages glorieuses. Couillard Després, Saint-Étienne de La Tour, 214–16.

Claude de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, proceeded to Port-Royal. Here, in the summer of 1629, Alexander built a new fort in which he decided to pass the winter, sending back his ship for

. Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour controlled Acadia at this time, but his defences were weak. He had outlasted his rival, Charles de

Sedgwick, Acadia was ceded by Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour to