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Monument to Fort LaTour, Saint John, New Brunswick. In July 1640, Charles de La Tour and Charles de Menou d'Aulnay began a series of violent and costly confrontations that would last for the next five years. Hostilities continued to escalate and by 1642 d'Aulnay managed to get La Tour charged with treason and disrespect to the French Crown.
Mar 20, 2020 · In 1606, fourteen-year-old Charles de St-Étienne de LaTour came to Acadie with his sixteen-year-old cousin, Charles de Biencourt, whose father, Jean de Poutrincourt, had been granted the seigneurie of Port Royal. The boys spent a year at the Habitation exploring their surroundings and getting to know their Mi'kmaw neighbours before the settlers were forced to return to France. In 1610, the ...
Couillard Després, Saint-Étienne de La Tour, Huguet, Poutrincourt, Émile Lauvrière, Deux traîtres d’Acadie et leur victime: les Latour père et fils et Charles d’Aulnay (Paris et Montréal, 1932). Edmund Slafter, Sir William Alexander and American colonization (Boston, 1873). General Bibliography
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Feb 26, 2024 · Charles (before 2 Mar 1663) As early as 1636, three individuals divided the territory of Acadia. At Port-Royal and Pentagoet. Charles de Menou d'Aulnay deals a little with agriculture, but especially with furs. At the Saint-Jean River and at Cap Sable, Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour engaged in the fur trade.
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Jan 21, 2008 · Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, colonizer, trader, governor of Acadia (b at Champagne, France 1593; d at Cap de Sable, Acadia 1663). La Tour possibly reached Acadia as early as 1606, living there permanently from 1610. When Charles de Biencourt died in 1623, La Tour assumed leadership of the colony and 8 years later received a royal ...
Charles La Tour (born 1593, Champagne, France—died 1666, Fort St. John, Nova Scotia) was a French colonist and fur trader who served as governor of Acadia (region of the North American Atlantic seaboard centred on Nova Scotia) under the French and the English. La Tour went to Acadia with his father in 1610.
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Feb 23, 2023 · The habitation had been previously abandoned in 1607 by Biencourt de Poutrincourt and others due to financial troubles. The 1610 expedition also included Poutrincourt's 19-year old son Charles de Biencourt de Saint-Just, and a Catholic priest who set about himself the task of baptizing the local Mi'kmaqs, including their chief Membertou.
