Sieur de monts biography of abraham

          De Monts was the founder of Acadia, one of the three great provinces into which France divided its possessions in America, the others being the.

        1. MARTIN, ABRAHAM (dit “l'Écossais” or “Maître Abraham”), pilot; b.
        2. A Calvinist, de Monts distinguished himself fighting in the cause of Henri IV during the religious wars in France.
        3. By George B. Dorr.
        4. Jacques-Timothée Boucher, Sieur de Montbrun anglicized as Timothy Demonbreun, was a French-Canadian fur trader, a Lieutenant in the American Revolution.

          5. A Calvinist, de Monts distinguished himself fighting in the cause of Henri IV during the religious wars in France..


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          Not much can be said about de Monts' earlier years. He "distinguished himself fighting in the cause of Henri IV during the religious wars in France." (DCB.) He thus had developed good connections at court and was able to secure an exclusive trading licence in respect to North American fur.

          The fur trade was one in which it was thought money could be made, since, during these times, the European smart set wished to be decked out in furs. These furs, as the returning fishermen could show, were obtainable by trading with the natives of North America.

          In 1604, De Monts formed a company whose members consisted mainly of merchants who conducted their business over a very wide area on the eastern coasts of France at such centres as Rouen, St.

          Malo and La Rochelle. I should say, however, not all the merchants were included in de Monts company; and so, jealousies sprung up, not only among the middle men but those in Paris who converted the furs into the finished product