mpagnie des Cent-Associes).= Established,
1627, by Cardinal Richelieu, on the advice of Isaac de Razilly. A
monopoly of fifteen years was granted, with full ownership of the entire
valley of the St. Lawrence, in return for which the Company was to take
out three hundred colonists every year up to 1643. No serious effort was
made to carry out this obligation, although the Company continued to
enjoy its monopoly until 1663. =Index=: =L= Resigns its charter, 41;
renders assistance to missions, 50; succeeded by the West India Company,
145. =Ch= Established, 169; list of directors, 170; documents relating
to, 171; sends out four vessels, 172; equips ships to retake Quebec,
213; terms of grant to, 222; bears expense of Jesuit mission stations,
228; sincerely interested in conversion of savages and progress of
colonization, 244; special committee for its financial affairs, 244;
appoints Champlain governor, 244. =F= Created by Cardinal Richelieu, 19;
colonists sent out by, 28; cedes some of its rights to colonists, 36;
new arrangement works badly, 37; surrenders all its powers to the king,
1663, 49; its failure to fulfil its engagements, 55. =E= Creates
seigniories, 175. =Bib.=: Biggar, _Early Trading Companies of New
France_; Parkman, _Pioneers of France_.

=Company of Notre Dame de Montreal.= =L= Consecrates the island of
Montreal to the Virgin, 85; makes over its rights to the Seminary of St.
Sulpice, in 1663, 108, 135; its debts discharged by De Belmont, 135.

=Company of Rouen and St. Malo (Champlain's Company).= Established at
the instance of Champlain, in 1614. The shares were divided among the
merchants of Rouen and St. Malo. The terms of their charter required the
Company to bring out colonists, but as usual they did not take this
obligation very seriously. They did, however, make one notable addition
to the population of New France, for in the spring of 1617 they brought
out Louis Hebert and his family. Hebert's experience as a colonist was
not such as to encourage others to follow his example. The Company's
monopoly was cancelled in 1620. =Index=: =Ch= Formed by Champlain, 122;
its chief members, 122; terms of its charter, 122; pays large salary to
the Prince de Conde, 122; Champlain has trouble with 123, 125; the king
intervenes on his behalf, 126; colonists to be brought out, 127-129;
absorbed by Company of De Caen, 130, 137; conflict with new Company,
133-137. =Bib.=: Biggar, _Early Trading Companies of New France