Links to Your Canadian Past Tome 1: Acadia & the Maritimes

Peter J. Gagne

Quintin Publications

Softcover. Guide to sources for historical research and genealogy in Quebec, Canada.

Links To Your Canadian Past: Tome 2: Quebec

<p>Before the state-sponsored immigration program that sent nearly 800 women known as Filles du Roi to Québec, 262 brave and adventurous women made the journey to New France on their own. Sent by relatives and religious organizations or enlisting on their own account, these women did not benefit from a paid passage and dowry drawn from the King’s treasury, but they did face the same if not worse hardships and dangers. Known as the Filles à Marier or “marriageable girls,” they were the first single women to set foot in the colony since its return from the English in 1632. True pioneers and heroines, they left their homes in France to found new ones in the New World. This book – the first work dedicated solely to this group of pioneer women – tells their story, collectively and individually. It first examines the much-misunderstood early immigration of women to New France, explaining the need for women in the colony, the difficulties in increasing the population and the unfounded assertions that these women were prostitutes, not pioneers. The book then includes individual biographies of each of these 262 single women and concludes with a table of arrivals per year, an appendix of supporting documentation (marriage and enlistment contracts and inventories), a glossary, index of husbands and a comprehensive index to the book. This is an English language edition. A must for those with French-Canadian ancestry. We have only a few copies left from this 3rd and final printing of 2008.</p>

Before the King's Daughters: The Filles a Marrier, 1634-1662

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<p>A groundbreaking biographical dictionary of the nearly 800 women and girls sent from France to populate Quebec between 1663 and 1673. The introduction explains the need for the program, compares it to similar initiatives by the English and the Spanish, dispels misconceptions about Filles du Roi and gives a history of the program in Canada. After defining who can be considered a Filles du Roi this work presents comprehensive biographies of all the "King's Daughters" including a wealth of information never before available in English. This 2-volume set also inludes biographies of women falsely identified as Filles du Roi, a glossary, a thematic index and an index of husbands.</p>

King's Daughters and Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1673

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Links to Your Canadian Past Tome 1: Acadia & the Maritimes

Links To Your Canadian Past: Tome 2: Quebec

Before the King's Daughters: The Filles a Marrier, 1634-1662

King's Daughters and Founding Mothers: The Filles du Roi, 1663-1673