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This program is closed-captioned.
On container: Episode 2B: Adventurers and mystics (1540-1670). Hour two.
Series senior producers, Gordon Henderson, Hubert Gendron ; directed by Claude Lortie, Serge Turbide ; written by Hubert Gendron, Gene Allen ; editor, Andre Daigneault ; producers, Ines Colabrese, Mechild Furlani; executive producer, Mark Starowiz.
Narrator, Maggie Huculak.
Through presentations of historical fact and dramatic re-enactment, this series traces Canadian history from the arrival of the first peoples to the end of the twentieth century. In the second hour of this episode, New France has been established amidst unprecedented alliances and devastating conflict, and French soldiers are sent to defend the colony. Segment one depicts the arrival of the first Jesuit missionaries to convert the Hurons to Christianity, and notes the impact of this work on the citizens of Europe. Segment two considers the religious wars in 17th century Europe, how Marie de L'Incarnation became the first woman missionary to arrive in New France on August 1, 1639, and why efforts to establish Montreal as a holy city were doomed to fail. Segment three reveals the circumstances which led to the Huron nation's turning against the alliance which had so benefited themselves and the French, and how the Iroquois took advantage of that weakened state to destroy Huronia in 1649. Segment four recounts the circumstances which compelled Louis XIV to send troops in the summer of 1665 to defend New France, the ill-fated winter campaign of the French against the Iroquois, and the French defeat of the Iroquois the following autumn which resulted in the signing of a peace treaty which would last 20 years. Segment five tells of the role of the colony in Louis XIV's commercial war against England, Spain, Holland and Portugal and the consequent plan of the Intendant Jean Talon to send women known as "filles du roi," "daughters of the king" to boost its population. Segment six looks at the efforts of Jean Talon to attract settlers and promote industry and trade in New France. Shows how farmers, skilled workers, and indentured servants established themselves here.
Grades 5-Senior 4, adult.
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