Pierre  LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY

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LEGARDEUR DE REPENTIGNY, PIERRE, Governor Huault de Montmagny’s lieutenant, director of the Communauté des Habitants, admiral of the fleet; b. probably in the first decade of the 17th century at Thury-Harcourt (Haute-Normandie), son of René Legardeur de Tilly and Catherine de Cordé; d. 1648 at sea.

Pierre Legardeur reached Quebec on 11 June 1636 with his mother, his sister Marguerite, wife of Jacques Leneuf de La Poterie, and his brother Charles Legardeur. de Tilly. He therefore formed part of the group of Normans and representatives of the lesser nobility that arrived with Montmagny. The name Repentigny came to him from a neighbourhood in Calvados.

Marie de l’Incarnation [see Guyart] states that he was Governor Montmagny’s lieutenant. Probably he succeeded Bréhaut Delisle in this office; of the latter there is no trace after 1642. Pierre Legardeur came into prominence in 1644, when he and Noël Juchereau Des Châtelets won over the important persons of the settlement to the idea...Read full story


Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003

The seigniory of Repentigny was established in 1640.
Certain officers of the Carignan regiment obtained concessions that would eventually bear their name (Berthier, Lavaltrie, La Noraye, etc.), and they become some of the first seigneur-entrepreneurs.
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In 1647, the L'Assomption Seignory was granted to Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny, named after the river already named such since the seventeenth century. wikipedia
Repentigny dates back to 1647 when Pierre Legardeur de Repentigny was granted a seigneury, but settlement did not occur until after 1670 when his son Jean-Baptiste was given the seigneury.
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Mascouche has been established on the banks of the river of the same name since 1717. This territory was part of a vast seigniory called Repentigny which belonged, from 1647, to Pierre LeGardeur.

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