Les Filles du roi / King’s daughters

Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (before 1927) depicting a scene of the arrival of women destined to marry French-Canadian farmers in Quebec City in 1667. It portrays Jean Talon and François de Laval, vicar apostolic of New France welcoming ...

Gilles Hocquart

Portrait of Gilles Hocquart, prominent individual from New France in 1765, ...