When Samuel Champlain visited in 1609, the potential of a transportation corridor was evident, attracting more French settlers ... From the hardships early settlers faced, to the establishment ...

Quebecois French has long been mocked for its rough-and-tumble sound, but this version of French is more likely what 17th-Century French aristocracy spoke – including the king. It was a perfect ...

To the early French settlers in the new South American colony of Guiana in the 18th century, the three tropical islands rising out of the water a few miles off the coast were a sight to behold.

In the 17th century, French settlers mounted defensive walls called ramparts along parts of Quebec City’s rocky escarpment to fortify it from the British. See these remnants on Rue des Remparts ...

When early French settlers learned to use canoes from Indigenous people, ice canoeing became an important survival skill. Quebec-Lévis was a busy route before there were ferries and bridges to ...

Both Bouchard and Poirier noted that 16th- and 17th-Century French settlers who immigrated to Quebec, then known as New France, tended to be natives of northern and western France. Aside from ...