Question
A group of young women called “the King’s Daughters” had their trousseau, dowry, and passage to this colony paid for by the king’s treasury. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this colony to which those women were sent between 1663 and 1673 to support the growth of its settler population. This colony’s preeminent port was later exchanged for Madras in the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle.
ANSWER: New France [or Nouvelle-France]
[10h] Many of the filles du roi (“fee du wah”) married members of this regiment who decided to stay in New France after their regiment’s departure in 1668. The first French soldiers arrived in New France as part of this regiment, having been sent in 1665 to protect the colony during the Beaver Wars.
ANSWER: Carignan-Salières (“CAH-rin-yahn SAH-lee-air”) Regiment
[10e] Many of the Carignan-Salières veterans and filles du roi settled on a river named for this cardinal who served as first minister for Louis XIII.
ANSWER: Cardinal Richelieu [accept the Richelieu River]
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