McShea has done for early modern North America and New France what Andrew Willard Jones’s Before Church and State did for the France of the 13th century. The result is a triumph of the historian ...

Founded in 1642 as part of ‘New France’, ... At Mile End in the heart of Little Italy is Jean-Talon Market, one of the largest open-air fresh produce markets in North America.

All these were preliminary anticipations of the real occupancy of New France. Champlain, Poutrincourt, and Lescarbot, in 1607, established at Port Royal the first agricultural colony in the New World.

The Department of History at Western Michigan University is home to the Joseph L. Peyser Endowment for the Study of New France. The endowment was created by J. Randall Peyser with a gift of $100,000 ...