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The man from Hudson’s Bay. Pierre Le Moyne d’Iberville is only 25 years old when, on August 10, 1686, the chevalier Pierre de Troyes entrusts him with the command of the posts which have just fallen to the French. D’Iberville becomes a freebooter. Marauding around the Nelson River, he captures two English ships.
- Settling in New France
- Family
- Legacy
Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay came to New France at age 15 and worked for the Jesuits in Huron-Wendat lands. After a brief stay in Trois-Rivières, he settled at Ville-Marie — present-day Montreal — in 1646. There he took part in numerous battles against the Haudenosaunee. He distinguished himself as a fighter and was invaluable as...
Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay was the father of a remarkable family. Almost all of his 12 sons had spectacular careers, displaying the bravery and guile of the coureurs de bois. The most renowned of Charles Le Moyne's sons was Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville, but his other sons were also quite accomplished. Charles Le Moyne de Longueu...
Charles Le Moyne de Longueuil et de Châteauguay’s legacy is preserved by the city of Longueuil and its agglomeration today. A statue of him is also displayed at the Maisonneuve Monument in Old Montreal in front of the Notre-Dame Basilica of Montreal.
Sep 16, 2022 · Pierre Le Moyne was born in the frontier village of Montreal, the third son of Catherine Thierry and Charles Le Moyne, on July 16, 1661. He was educated in the Sulpician seminary of Montreal. With the permission of Governor Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac, Iberville served as a midshipman in the French navy during his teenage years.
Oct 3, 2024 · With Pierre Gadoys, Le Moyne was elected a warden of the parish church of Ville-Marie in 1660, and when the royal government was set up at Montreal in 1663 he was given the office of attorney-general, which he filled for a year or two. In 1668 Le Moyne received letters patent of nobility.
Order of Saint Louis. Signature. Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville[a] (16 July 1661 – 9 July 1706) [1][2] or Sieur d'Iberville[a] was a French soldier, explorer, colonial administrator, and trader. He is noted for founding the colony of Louisiana in New France. He was born in Montreal to French colonist parents.
In 1646, Charles Le Moyne settled definitively in Ville-Marie, which later became Montréal. He was one of the military leaders of the small village. In 1654, following his marriage to Catherine Thierry, Chomedy de Maisonneuve gave Le Moyne a concession for 90 acres of land, on the south-west point, which took the name Pointe-Saint-Charles at that time.
Constructed between 1669 and 1671, the Le Ber-Le Moyne house and its outbuilding are among the oldest remaining structures linked to Canada's fur trade. Jacques Le Ber and Charles Le Moyne, two wealthy fur traders living in Montréal, established this trading post at a commercial gathering place already frequented by Aboriginal people.
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