1625: French settlements in the
West Indies begin, exporting
sugar and
tobacco, and emigration to
Canada is encouraged among traders and fishermen.[7][8]
1626:
Peter Minuit, governor of New Netherland, buys
Manhattan Island for 60 guilders(equivalent to $24 USD now) worth of trade goods from the Canarsie Indians (Dutch later have to pay Manhattan Indians, actual occupants of the island). Dutch policy is land payments to Indians, neutrality in Indian conflicts relating to French-English struggle.[12][13][14]
1627:
Cardinal Richelieu, chief adviser to
Louis XIII, organizes a joint-stock company, the
Company of One Hundred Associates (also known as the Company of New France), to establish a French Empire in
North America. It is given a fur monopoly and title to all lands claimed by
New France (April 29). In exchange, they are to establish a French colony of 4000 by 1643, which they fail to do.[15][16]
1628: Olivier Le Jeune, an 8-year-old boy from
Madagascar, arrives in Quebec. He is the first recorded slave purchase in New France. Le Jeune is probably the first person of African origin to live most of his life in Canada.[17][18]
1625: French settlements in the
West Indies begin, exporting
sugar and
tobacco, and emigration to
Canada is encouraged among traders and fishermen.[7][8]
1626:
Peter Minuit, governor of New Netherland, buys
Manhattan Island for 60 guilders(equivalent to $24 USD now) worth of trade goods from the Canarsie Indians (Dutch later have to pay Manhattan Indians, actual occupants of the island). Dutch policy is land payments to Indians, neutrality in Indian conflicts relating to French-English struggle.[12][13][14]
1627:
Cardinal Richelieu, chief adviser to
Louis XIII, organizes a joint-stock company, the
Company of One Hundred Associates (also known as the Company of New France), to establish a French Empire in
North America. It is given a fur monopoly and title to all lands claimed by
New France (April 29). In exchange, they are to establish a French colony of 4000 by 1643, which they fail to do.[15][16]
1628: Olivier Le Jeune, an 8-year-old boy from
Madagascar, arrives in Quebec. He is the first recorded slave purchase in New France. Le Jeune is probably the first person of African origin to live most of his life in Canada.[17][18]