Lesson 10: Fights on Various Fronts.

Frontenac to a delegation sent from Phips with an invitation to surrender: "I have no reply to make other than the from the mouths of my canons and muskets."

A. The Fight for Hudson Bay
1) Primary Texts:
MFHC: 9.1,

2) Map(s): Trace the journey Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville made to capture the forts. (Reference is in Dickie, p. 65) Also here

(For this, one needs a nice map of the James Bay area which extends far enough North to include Fort Nelson and includes the Ottawa River and Montreal) This one could possibly be cut down and re-sized.

3) Activities: none.

4) Time-line Figure or image: D'Iberville. (lovely pen and ink illustration here.
placement: 1686

5) Supplemental readings:
CBYR: Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville


B. Count Frontenac, Louis de Baude

1) Primary Texts:
MFHC: 9.2, 9.3, 9.4
C&C: Lesson 11, p.30
F of C:

My emphasis will be on Frontenac's defence against William Phips.

Video: Episode 3: Claiming the Wilderness, To the Upper Country (LaSalle), The First Colonial War, The Great Peace.

2) Map(s): Interesting map of Phips campaign here
also shows the location of a sunken ship which may or may not have been part of Phips' fleet.

3) Activities:

4) Time-line Figure or image: Frontenac (Click on it, it's actually quite large!)
placement: 1689

5) Supplemental readings:
Count Frontenac, (pp 80-81) from Great Canadian Lives, by Karen Ford.
CBYR: Louis de Baude, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau

The conflict between Phips and Frontenac was part of a larger conflict called "King William's War." See this article to put the conflict within that context. Not really something to go into with the kids now, though.

C. Madeleine de Vercheres
1) Primary Sources:
MFHC: 9.5

3) Activity: colouring page from the Canadian War Museum History colouring book. Try the link to the French version if the English isn't working: here

4) Time-line Figure or image: a painterly rendition (but not the portrait).
placement: 1692

5) Supplemental readings:
Madeleine de Vercheres, (pp 84-85) from Great Canadian Lives, by Karen Ford.
nicely written biography on a blog here.

CBYR: Madeleine Jarret de Vercheres

books from library:
Madeleine de Vercheres by Janet Grant.
Canadian Heroes by Maxine Trottier