bers of the Company to France, a mistake for which he
paid the penalty by being himself recalled. De Mesy was succeeded by
the Marquis de Tracy and was the second Chief Crown Governor, or
Viceroy. He was not fettered with a Council of Advice, but he was more
absurdly hampered with almost co-equals in the shape of assistants. The
Seigneur de Courcelles was appointed Governor of the Colony, and Mon.
De Talon, Intendant. De Tracy brought with him as settlers the then
newly disbanded regiment of Carignan-Sallieres, which had returned from
fighting, not for the Turks in Hungary, but against them. They had been
extraordinarily successful. And France had acquired great influence by
her successful efforts to stay Mahometan encroachment. The Turks were
then the oppressors not the oppressed. But France then, as now, was
playing the balance of power game. The men of the Carignan-Sallieres
Regiment were admirably adapted for settlement in a country in which
constant fighting was being carried on. They were to have a deep
interest in subduing the Iroquois. They were some protection against
the Round-Heads of Massachusetts. Sixteen hundred and sixty-five other
settlers, including many artisans, accompanied them. Cattle, sheep, and
horses were for the first time sent to Canada. More priests were sent
out, for whom the West India Company were, by their charter, bound to
provide churches and houses. The most Christian king had determined
upon at least christianizing the country, and upon so retaining it.
Without priests and churches the Hungarian Heroes would have been of as
little value to France as the cattle, sheep, and horses which
accompanied them to Canada. It was a condition of the West India
Company's Charter that priests were to be carried out, and parsonages
and churches erected. Like most companies chartered for similar
purposes, the stock of this company was transferable, but only the
revenue, or profits of the revenue could be attached for the debts of
the stockholders. The company had a monopoly of the territory, and the
trade of the Colony for forty years. Nor was this all. His most
Christian Majesty conferred a bounty of thirty livres on every ton of
goods imported to France, a kind of protection similar to that still
extended by the French government to the Newfoundland fisheries. The
company had the right to all mines and minerals--had the power of
levying and recruiting soldiers in France--had the power of
manufacturin