History of Tadoussac, La Haute-Côte-Nord, Québec, Canada

With fur trader Pont-Gravé and Pierre de Monts on Aymar de Chaste's ship 'Bonne Renomme'; his First major voyage to Canada; will survey the region with a view to future settlement; will spend the winter at Tadoussac, and on his return publishes an account of his voyage: Des Sauvages. Honfleur, France

Samuel de Champlain's young wife enchants the local native children, who admire her clothes and ask her to sing. Tadoussac, Québec

After heavy losses in wars with the English and Dutch; founded by Jean-Baptiste Colbert in 1664 to replace the Compagnie des cent-associés; supposed to populate Canada, using the profits of the Guadeloupe sugar trade; 1665 sent the Régiment Carignan-Salières to New France, to provide security against Iroquois invasion, and contributed to the settlement of the colony, by the arrival of 1200 men from the Dauphiné, Liguria, Piedmont and Savoy; Charles Aubert de La Chesnaye, fur trader in Tadoussac between 1663 and 1666, was general clerk of the Company from 1666-69, and after the dissolution of the company, held the fur monopoly from 1675-81. Le Havre, France

TADOUSAC, a post village and watering place of Quebec, capital of the co. of Saguenay, situated at the east entrance of the Saguenay river, about 5 miles above its confluence with the St Lawrence, on a semicircular terrace at the top of a beautiful bay with a sandy beach, hemmed in by mountains of solid rock, 25 miles from Riviere du Loup, 130 miles from Quebec. It has a good hotel, and a number of handsome villas, including one built by His Excellency Earl Dufferin, and is much frequented by tourists aid health seekers during the summer months. Tadousac, apart from its pleasant situation as a watering place, is interesting from the circumstance of its having been at an early period the capital of the French settlements, and for a long time was one of the chief fur trading posts. Here are the ruins of a Jesuit religious establishment, which are considered a great curiosity although nothing remains but the foundations upon which the ancient edifice rested. It is confidently asserted...