In 1665, there were only seventy houses in Quebec. In the early 1670s, about 1000 young women - nicknamed the king's daughters - arrived in New France to help populate the colony. (As portrayed in ...

In the early summer of 1665, twelve hundred men of the Carignan-Salières regiment landed in New France, under the orders of King Louis XIV. For the Jesuit Superior, François Le Mercier ...