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Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit (born c. 1550, died 1603) was a French naval and military captain and a lieutenant of New France who built at Tadoussac, in present-day Quebec, the oldest and strongest surviving French settlement in the Americas.
CHAUVIN DE TONNETUIT, PIERRE DE, French naval and military captain, lieutenant of New France, called the founder of Tadoussac; b. Dieppe, Normandy; d. early in February 1603 in France (probably at Honfleur).
Pierre de Chauvin, sieur de Tonnetuit, né à Dieppe ( Normandie, France) avant 1575 et mort à Honfleur en février 1603 n 1, est un capitaine de la marine et de l'armée française, lieutenant-général de la Nouvelle-France.
CHAUVIN DE LA PIERRE, PIERRE, also called Chavin, Huguenot merchant and sea captain, temporary commandant at Quebec in 1609–10. Champlain normally calls him “Capt. Pierre,” and only once names him “Pierre Chavin.”. But the latter’s frequent dealings with Pierre de Chauvin de Tonnetuit and his sister about an inheritance lead us to ...
CHAUVIN DE TONNETUIT, PIERRE DE, capitaine dans la marine et dans l’armée françaises, lieutenant général de la Nouvelle-France, surnommé le fondateur de Tadoussac ; né à Dieppe, en Normandie, mort au début de février 1603 en France (probablement à Honfleur).
Pierre Chauvin, lord of Tonnetuit, a Huguenot nobleman from Dieppe, went to Saint-Laurent, where he set up the first trading post for selling furs (1599 – 1600). He had intended to set up a settlement of 500 people in Tadoussac at the mouth of Saguenaye but he died just before setting out on a second expedition.
Chauvin Pierre Sieur De Tonnetuit A Huguenot, born at Dieppe. Appointed captain of the garrison at Honfleur, 1589. Obtained trading monopoly for ten years in Canada. Made a trading voyage to Canada, 1600, bringing out a few colonists, whom he landed at Tadoussac. Sailed again the following year, with a larger fleet, but no colonists; and again ...
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