Relationship to Me
NINTH Great Grand-Mother
NINTH Great Grand-Mother
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Unmarried women
sponsored by the king to immigrate to New France between 1663 and 1673. Private
interests gave priority to bringing over male workers, and the French
government and religious communities wanted to correct the gender imbalance in
the colonies. The king’s advisor, Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, sent the
“Filles du Roi” as an incentive for male workers who had finished their
contract and soldiers of the Carignan-Salières regiment (which had just been
demobilized) to settle in the colony.