We have seen that Laval, when at court, had been invited to choose a governor to his liking.Continuing chapter 7.Our special project
The Alleged Murder
In virtue of their new dignity, the accused now claimed exemption from accountability but this was not all.Continuing chapter 7. Previously in The
Parkman Vol. 4, Chapter 7
Many years before, the company had ceded its monopoly of the fur trade to the inhabitants of the colony.Previously in The Old Regime In
Baron Dubois d’Avaugour New Governor of Canada
He was an old soldier of forty years service, blunt, imperative, and sometimes obstinate to perverseness; but full of energy, and of a probity which
Parkman Vol. 4, Chapter 6
The Genius of the Forest now appeared, with a retinue of wild Indians from the interior.Previously in The Old Regime In CanadaOur special
Parkman Vol. 4, Chapter 5
The Jesuits, adepts in human nature, had made a sagacious choice when they put forward this conscientious, zealous, dogged, and pugnacious priest to
Laval Versus Queylus
A squad of soldiers, commanded, it is said, by the governor himself, went up to Montreal, brought the indignant Queylus to Quebec, and shipped him
Jansenist Heresy Reaches Canada
The Jansenist doctrines of election and salvation by grace were to the Jesuits an abomination.Previously in The Old Regime In CanadaOur
Parkman Vol. 4, Chapter 4
With a sword or a hatchet in one hand and a knife in the other, they threw themselves against the throng of enemies.Previously in The Old Regime In