So, the King will provide young women who agree to marry settlers in New France with a dowry to encourage them to leave their homeland and to risk the long journey to the wild lands of New France.Ĭatherine's younger sister Helene is to accompany her though is agreed that she is too young to be married herself. He needs the men who go to New France to find wives and to have children. The King wants to have his new lands settled quickly, to consolidate his position there, and the best way to do this he feels is to people it as fast as possible. It is therefore decided that Catherine will take advantage of the King's generosity and go to New France (Canada today) as a fille du roi or fille a marrier to marry a settler in the French province.
When Helene and her older sister Catherine's beloved father dies their future suddenly becomes very uncertain for they learn that their father left a great many debts behind him. Alone in an Untamed Land: The Filles du Roi Diary of Helene St.
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