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Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour (1593–1666) was a Huguenot French colonist and fur trader who served as Governor of Acadia from 1631–1642 and again from 1653–1657. Early life.
Mar 20, 2020 · An Adventurer in Acadie. By Joan Dawson with research support from the Nova Scotia Museum. In 1606 at the age of fourteen, Charles de LaTour came to Acadie and led an adventurous life.
On 8 Feb. 1631 Louis XIII signed a royal commission naming Charles de La Tour governor and lieutenant-general of the king; it was delivered either by Laurent Ferchaud or Krainguille, who brought out the requested materials for La Tour’s use at Saint John.
SAINT-ÉTIENNE DE LA TOUR, CHARLES DE, trader and soldier; b. between 1663 and 1668 at Cape Sable in Acadia; d. 1731 at Louisbourg. He was one of five children of the famous Charles de Saint-Étienne* de La Tour and Jeanne Motin* d’Aulnay.
Jan 21, 2008 · Charles de Saint-Étienne de La Tour, colonizer, trader, governor of Acadia (b at Champagne, France 1593; d at Cap de Sable, Acadia 1663). La Tour possibly reached Acadia as early as 1606, living there permanently from 1610.
CHARLES DE SAINTETIENNE DE LA TOUR, (1593 1666) French colonist and fur trader who served as governor of Acadia (Nova Scotia) under the French and the English. Hearing ofthe creation of the Company of New France, Charles DE LA TOUR wrote in 1627 to King Louis XIII and to his minister, Cardinal Richelieu, telling them that Acadi~ was in ...
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Charles La Tour was a French colonist and fur trader who served as governor of Acadia (region of the North American Atlantic seaboard centred on Nova Scotia) under the French and the English. La Tour went to Acadia with his father in 1610.
