Colby, Charles W. - Fighting Governor - A Chronicle of Frontenac, The
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«The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates. Through the efforts of Louis XIV and Colbert it had assumed the form of an organized province. [Footnote: See The Great Intendant in this Series.] Though its inhabitants numbered less than seven thousand, the institutions under which they lived could not have been more elaborate or precise.»
Publisher: eBooksLib.com Language: English - 102 pages - Contains an Index Sorted in History