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  1. Jan 21, 2008 · Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, colonizer, trader, governor of Acadia (b at Champagne, France 1593; d at Cap de Sable, Acadia 1663). La Tour possibly reached Acadia as early as 1606, living there permanently from 1610.

  2. Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour (1593–1666) was a Huguenot French colonist and fur trader who served as Governor of Acadia from 1631–1642 and again from 1653–1657.

  3. Mar 20, 2020 · An Adventurer in Acadie. By Joan Dawson with research support from the Nova Scotia Museum. In 1606 at the age of fourteen, Charles de LaTour came to Acadie and led an adventurous life.

  4. Charles de La Tour, who must remain something of a controversial figure, was ambitious, confident of his own judgement, and the possessor of great natural ability and determination. He was a born leader with the happy faculty of making friends and of inspiring faith in his integrity.

  5. Jun 14, 2024 · Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour was born to parents Nicolas Saint-Étienne de La Tour and Marie Amador De Salazar around 1593 in France. He was a trader, and a Governor of Acadia with a lengthy history in both France and Acadia.

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  6. SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, CHARLES DE, trader and soldier; b. between 1663 and 1668 at Cape Sable in Acadia; d. 1731 at Louisbourg. He was one of five children of the famous Charles de Saint-Étienne* de La Tour and Jeanne Motin* d’Aulnay.

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  8. After a successful raid on Port-Royal, the New Englanders withdrew their help and La Tour took refuge in Québec. After d'Aulnay's death in 1650, La Tour was exonerated from all wrong doings and was named Governor of Acadia for a second time.