The filles du roi weren’t the only people Louis XIV sent to New France. In 1665, the French crown ordered a group of French soldiers to reinforce New France and protect its investments there.

In 1665, there were only seventy houses in Quebec. In the early 1670s, about 1000 young women - nicknamed the king's daughters - arrived in New France to help populate the colony. (As portrayed in ...

Between 1645 and 1665, New France was under siege. Marie de L'Incarnation obeyed a call from God to convert the natives of New France. (As portrayed by Paule Baillargeon in Canada: A People's ...