A short biography for children on the life and journeys of French explorer Sieur de La Salle, and includes information about his expeditions to the Mississippi River, Louisiana, and his last expedition near Matagorda Bay, Texas.
An overview of everyday life from 1639-1760 in New France, an area which included parts of Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Quebec, as well as parts of several states in what is now the United States.
Describes the early life of sixteenth-century French navigator Jacques Cartier, discussing his explorations of the St. Lawrence River and surrounding lands in Canada, and providing information about life at sea on a galleon, and the St. Lawrence Iroquois.
The life of the sixteenth-century French navigator and explorer whose discovery of the St. Lawrence River and the fertile land beyond led to the establishment of a French colony in the Americas.
Chronicles the life and adventures of seventeenth-century French explorer Sieur de la Salle, and describes his early life and expeditions through North America as well as his obsession with building a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi.
At the end of the 17th century in Quebec, C?cile Auclair and her father, the town's apothecary, live a life very different than the one they knew in Paris.
