Adventurers and Mystics
Time Span: 1540 To 1670
With the search for the
Northwest Passage and the expansion of the Grand Banks fishery, the New World
soon becomes a destination for permanent European colonies, in Newfoundland and
along the St. Lawrence. Samuel de Champlain begins his legendary journeys, and
the precarious beginnings of New France are established. It is an era of
unprecedented alliances and devastating conflicts with native people, driven by
the merchants' search for furs and the Jesuits' quest for souls. After a
half-century of struggle, with the colony on the verge of extinction, Louis XIV
takes personal control, sending French soldiers to defend the struggling
outpost and eligible young women, the "filles du roi," to become their
wives.
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Spain in America, Aztecs, conquistadors, gold
and jewels, Raleigh
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Martin Frobisher, search for Northwest
passage, Inuit, gold ore
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Newfoundland, codfish, John Guy’s colonists,
Cooper’s Cove, Beothuk
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Tadoussac, furtrade, Champlain, founding of
Quebec, scurvy
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Montagnais and Algonquin, Iroquois cut off
from trade, military alliances
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Etienne Brulé with the Hurons, Champlain
visits Huronia, Sagard vs. coureurs de bois
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Champlain to France to promote a full colony,
Company of 100 Associates, surrender of Quebec to Kirkes (English)
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Jesuit missionaries
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Religious warfare in France, Marie de
l’Incarnation, Society of Notre Dame de Montreal, Jeanne Mance
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Disease, Hurons hold Jesuits responsible,
Huronia destroyed
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Siege of Quebec, Royal colony, Marquis de
Salières, governor Courcelles, scorched earth campaign against Iroquois
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Jean Talon, Colbert, Marie Claude Chamois,
Filles du Roi
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Most men engagés/indentured servants, many
return to France; Europe at war, 1000 young women in 7 years
