. A history of Canada for high schools and academies. in France suitable wives for his colonists, and as many as twelve hundred girls were shipped to Canada between i66e; Importation b 1 1 J of wives for and i67o. These girls, as a rule, were selected with the colonists. , great care, and usually from the country rather thanthe city, country girls being found best adapted to the rough lifeof a new land. Each girl on her mairiq,ge — and the weddingstook place in batches of thirties as soon as possible after thecoming of each ship-load—received a generous dowry from theKing, with which to begin
. A history of Canada for high schools and academies. in France suitable wives for his colonists, and as many as twelve hundred girls were shipped to Canada between i66e; Importation b 1 1 J of wives for and i67o. These girls, as a rule, were selected with the colonists. , great care, and usually from the country rather thanthe city, country girls being found best adapted to the rough lifeof a new land. Each girl on her mairiq,ge — and the weddingstook place in batches of thirties as soon as possible after thecoming of each ship-load—received a generous dowry from theKing, with which to begin her housekeeping. Young men refus-ing to marry were made to feel the royal displeasure, and werenot allowed to hunt, fish, or trade. Under these conditionsbachelorhood became inconvenient in Canada, and presently un-common. In the year 1667 an event took place which showedthat the long-harassed land was i>assing into the humour of con-tent. The first ball on record in Canada was given in the city ofQuebec, on the night of the 4th of VOYAGE OF MARQUETTE AND JOLLIET. 81 32. New France reaches out to the Mississippi and Hudson Bay,and secures her Hold upon Lake Ontario. — In the year of therecall of the Recollets, the governor sent out one Nicholas Perrot,a daring explorer much skilled in the Indian dialects, Nicholas Per-to gather the western tribes to a conference. Perrot western*^^went through the Lake Superior region, and down *^®-Lake Michigan to the spot where now stands Chicago. This wasthe centre of the strong Miami tribe. Early in the next year athrong of delegates met at Sault Ste. Marie, where the Kingscommissioner explained to them that they were all taken underthe royal protection. The whole Lake region was then formallyannexed to France. On this expedition Perrot was told by theIndians of a vast river flowing southward, which they calledM^chaseb^ or Mississippi, The Father of Waters. The tidingsimpressed Talon. The untiring and unterrified priest
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