Giffard Robert


First seignior in New France. Mentioned at Quebec in

1627; returned to France, 1629; established at his Beauport seigneury,

1634; a member of the Council, 1646; syndic of Quebec, 1648; gave his

St. Gabriel property to the Jesuits, 1667. =Index=: (Samuel de Champlain era) Landed with his

family by Kirke on St. Pierre Island, 174; comes to Canada with forty

colonists, 250; receives grant of land near Beauport, 251. =Bib.=:

Douglas, Old France in the New World.



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