Charles Jacques Huault de Montmagny (c.1599 – 1654) was governor of New France from 1636-1648. He succeeded Champlain as governor. He was able to negotiate a peace treaty with the Iroquois at Trois-Rivières in 1645. The designation C: (sometimes C: ) is the drive letter that refers to the main partition (or portion of an hard drive) on an MS-DOS or Windows personal computer. ... Events Swedish King Sigismund III Vasa is replaced by his brother Charles IX of Sweden. ... Events April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. ... New France (French: la Nouvelle-France) describes the area colonized by France in North America during a period extending from the exploration of the Saint Lawrence River by Jacques Cartier in 1534 to the cession of New France to the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1763. ... Samuel de Champlain by Théophile Hamel (1870) Samuel de Champlain (1567 – 1635) was a French geographer, draftsman, explorer and founder of Quebec City. ... The Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power) is a group of First Nations/Native Americans. ... Des Forges boulevard at night. ...
He died in the Antilles in 1654. The Antilles now generally refers to the islands of the Caribbean or West Indies, except the Bahamas. ...
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Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=34409)
The second French Governor of Canada, born in France towards the end of the sixteenth century, of CharlesHuault and Antoinette du Drac; died in the Antilles after 1651.
In 1636 was begun the reduction of Sillery, where Montmagny strove to have the Indians instructed.
Parkman accuses him of being a tool in the hands of the Jesuits, but his refusal to develop actively their missions in the region of the Great Lakes, to the detriment of the interests of Quebec, gives ample proof of his independent government.
CharlesHuaultdeMontmagny was the man chosen to succeed Champlain as governor of New France during this time of tumult.
Born in Paris in 1601, Montmagny was educated by the Jesuits and studied law at the Universite d’Orleans.
Montmagny’s foresight, diligence, personal courage, zeal for the propagation of the Catholic faith, and the reputation he forged among the Indians, had been crucial to the survival of the French colonies in Canada.
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