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Quebec and the expansion of New France (1620s)

Type Event Region North America Time 1621–1630

In the 1620s Samuel de Champlain consolidated the Quebec settlement in the St.…

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  1. 1621–1627Quebec and the St. Lawrence Valley · Quebec ProvinceChamplain continued as governor of Quebec, promoting agricultural settlement, Catholic missionary work, and the fur trade; in the 1620s he maintained military-trade alliances with the Huron, Algonquin, and other peoples, and participated in conflicts with the Iroquois, expanding French influence in the Great Lakes region.
  2. 1627Paris · Île-de-FranceLouis XIII approved the establishment of the Company of New France (Compagnie des Cent-Associés), granting its 100 shareholders monopoly trading and colonization rights between the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Florida, with plans to send thousands of settlers and supplies to the colony each year.
  3. 1629–1630Quebec · Quebec ProvinceThe Kirke brothers (David & Lewis Kirke) led an English privateer fleet that forced Champlain to surrender when supplies ran out, and Quebec fell. The 1620s ended with Anglo-French rivalry over the St. Lawrence fur trade and colonial presence; the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1632) returned Quebec to France.

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