Count Frontenac: Makers of Canada, Volume 3LeSueur, William Dawson
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Count Frontenac: Makers of Canada, Volume 3
LeSueur, William Dawson
Canada -- History -- To 1763 (New France); Frontenac, Louis de Buade, comte de, 1620-1698
Callieres, M. de, memorandum by, on French claims in Hudson's Bay, 204;
commands regular troops in attack on Iroquois, 209;
sent to France to represent situation of colony, 230;
leads 800 men from Montreal to defence of Quebec, 292;
commands vanguard in attack on Onondagas, 351;
commended in despatches, 353;
succeeds Frontenac as governor, 362
Canada, population of, 36, 55, 58, 131, 147, 148;
poverty of, impresses Sister Margaret Bourgeoys, 39;
morals of the people, 58, 59;
over-governed, 131;
trade, 148;
affected by all the vicissitudes of Mother Country, 150, 151;
"farmers" of revenue appointed for, 154;
Bishop Saint Vallier's first description of country and inhabitants,
192;
Governor Denonville's description, 192;
Saint Vallier's revised opinion, 193;
real character of the people, 193-5;
state of depression throughout the country, 219, 240;
drinking habits of people, 223;
described by Laval as the country of miracles, 301;
exhaustion of, after departure of New England fleet, 305, 317
Carignan-Salieres Regiment sent out, 51;
some of the officers settle in Canada and become seigneurs, 57
Carion, officer at Montreal, refuses to recognize Frontenac's order
for arrest of _coureurs de bois_, 91
Cartier, Jacques, voyages of, 1
Cataraqui, expedition of Courcelles to, 59;
of Frontenac, 76-84;
fort, known afterwards as Fort Frontenac, erected at, 83
Census of 1666, 55
Chambly, fort erected at, 51
Chambly, M. de, appointed governor of Acadia, 90, 269;
taken prisoner to Boston and there set at liberty, 269;
again governor, 270;
governor of Grenada (W.I.), 270
Champigny, Jean Bochart de, intendant, 207;
captures peaceful Indians for king's galleys, 215;
on sufferings of expeditionary force sent against Mohawks, 322;
complains of Frontenac's treatment of him, 336;
opposes restoration of Fort Frontenac, 341
Champlain, Samuel de, early career of, 3;
sails for St. Lawrence and explores river to Lachine rapids, 4;
explores Baie des Chaleurs, returns to France, 5;
accompanies de Monts to Acadia, 7;
founder of Quebec, 8;
plot against his life, 8;
expedition against Iroquois, 9;
returns to France and sails again for Canada, 10;
returns to France, marries, and sails again for Canada, 11;
prospects Island of Montreal, 12;
returns to France (1611), sails for Canada (1613), again to France,
again to Canada (1615), 13;
brings out Recollet missionaries, 13;
heads another expedition against Iroquois, 14;
begins construction of Chateau St. Louis, 15;
surrenders Quebec to English under Kirke, 20;
landed in England, 21;
urges restitution of Canada, 22;
sails for Quebec (1633), 24;
death of, 26
Chapais, M. Thos., his work on Talon referred to, 57 (note)
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