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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 (c. ...
The Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations) is a group of First Nations/Native Americans. ...
The front of the Ursulines Monastary, on Ursulines Street. ...
Antilles in 1654. The Antilles now generally refers to the islands of the Caribbean or West Indies, except the Bahamas. ...
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