Filles du roi: the Founding Mothers of New France via STOR Daily [Shared]

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Filles du roi: the Founding Mothers of New France via STOR Daily

This was an interesting read for me as I have Quebçois ancestors on my mother’s side. The family name then was Therrian (worker of the land), and when they moved to upstate New York, possibly due to expulsion by the British, like the Acadians, they anglicized the name to Farmer. I have one ancestor I can trace to the mmid-1700s Perhaps my Quebeçois family found its beginning in the Filles du roi. More research is now required. – Douglas

The image depicts a historical scene set outdoors, featuring a group of people dressed in elaborate 17th-century attire. The setting appears to be a stone platform or stage, with a cobblestone ground and a building entrance in the background. The central figure is a woman in a white gown with green floral embroidery, kneeling and facing a group of men in dark robes and wigs, suggesting a formal or ceremonial occasion. Surrounding her are other women in colorful dresses, including a prominent red gown with lace details, and men in dark, ornate clothing, some holding hats. A man in a blue turban and bare chest is visible in the foreground, looking up at the group. The scene is rich in detail, with textures of fabrics and the architecture of the setting clearly visible.</p> <p>Provided by @altbot, generated privately and locally using Ovis2-8B

On September 22, 1663, thirty-six young women arrived in a French colony on the shores of the St. Lawrence River in a region that we now call eastern Canada. While the men of the colony greeted them eagerly, the women were whisked away by an order of nuns already living in the area. These sisters would protect and train the women for their calling as wives and mothers, soon to be matriarchs of all New France, as it was then known. Over the next decade, hundreds more women would make this transatlantic journey, and nearly all remained to marry and bear children. They turned the fur trading colonies into self-sustaining settlements that formed the basis for present-day Quebec.

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