Count Frontenac: Makers of Canada, Volume 3LeSueur, William Dawson
History
Count Frontenac: Makers of Canada, Volume 3
LeSueur, William Dawson
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de, 1620-1698
Acadia, attempt to form settlement in, 6;
seized by English under Kirke, 22;
subsequent vicissitudes, 268-72;
seized under orders from Cromwell, 268;
settlers disposed to trade with New England, 270;
Port Royal (Annapolis) made capital, 270;
visited by Meulles and Saint Vallier, and census taken, 271;
Port Royal and other posts captured by Phipps, who establishes
government, 274;
passes again under French control, 316
Agriculture in Canada, difficulties in the way of, 87
Aguesseau, Chancellor d', on French parliaments, 153
Ailleboust, M. d', succeeds Montmagny as governor, 35;
interim governor, 42
Albany, Fort, captured by Troyes, 206;
captured alternately by French and English, 343, 345
Andros, Sir Edmund, governor of New England, 263;
seized and imprisoned, 266
Argenson, Vicomte d', arrives as governor, 43;
on Laval, 45
Auteuil, Denis Joseph Ruette d', attorney-general, 106;
death of, 138
Auteuil, Francois d', son of Denis, succeeds him, 138;
makes trouble for Intendant Meulles, 174;
waits on Frontenac, 255
Avaugour, Baron Dubois d', governor, 45;
disagrees with clergy on liquor question, 46;
describes earthquake, 46
B
Ball, first given in Canada, 59
Beaucour, M. de, brave conduct of, in command of party against
Iroquois, 319;
superintends improvements in fortifications of Quebec, 326
Bellomont, Earl of, governor of New York, corresponds with Frontenac,
355
Belmont, Abbe, on number of captives taken at Lachine, 226;
on excessive use of brandy, 312 and note
Bernieres, Henri de, grand-vicar of bishop of Quebec, 111
Berthier, M. de, commands militia in campaign against Iroquois, 209
Bienville, Le Moyne de, joins war party against Schenectady, 235
Big Mouth (Grande Gueule), Onondaga orator, 184, 221
Bizard, officer of Frontenac, arrested by Perrot, 91
Boulduc, prosecutor of Prevote, dismissed, 138
Bourdon, Sister Anne, on divine protection of Quebec, 301
Bourgeoys, Sister Margaret, establishes Congregation de Notre Dame,
29, 39;
impressed on arrival by poverty of country, 39
Bradstreet, Simon, made governor of Massachusetts, 266;
on failure of expedition against Quebec, 301
Brouillan, M. de, French governor at Placentia, Newfoundland, 346
Bruey, agent of governor Perrot at Montreal, 97
Buade, Antoine de, grandfather of Frontenac, 61
Buade, Henri de, father of Frontenac, 61
Buade, Louis de, Count Frontenac, see _Frontenac_
Bullion, Mme. de, benefactress of Hotel Dieu at Montreal, 29
C
Caen, William de, head of trading company, 23
Caen, Emery de, takes over Quebec from the English, 23
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