Three Rivers

City of Quebec, at the mouth of St. Maurice River. First

colonists settled there in 1633; the Jesuits arrived the following year;

and the same year a fort was built by Laviolette, who is regarded as the

founder of the town. Throughout the seventeenth century, it was the

scene of almost constant conflict with the Iroquois. In 1670 the Jesuits

were replaced by the Recollets; and in 1697 the Ursulines established a

conven . =Index=: (Bishop Laval era) Recollet mission at, 111. (Wolfe / Montcalm era) French provision

ships retire to, 87. (Lord Dorchester era) Governorship of, abolished, 21; used as

military depot by Americans in invasion of Canada, 141; Carleton's

troops rendezvous at, 144. (Count Frontenac era) Fort erected at, 24; population in 1666,

268. (Samuel de Champlain era) Centre of fur trade for some years, 120; conference with

Indian tribes at, 162; Jesuit mission founded at, 228. (Sir Frederick Haldimand era) Haldimand

military governor of, 1; Ralph Burton governor of, 41-42; Haldimand

appointed to district on Burton's departure, 42-51, 64, 65, 290, 293;

early history of the settlement, 42; fires in, 44; difficulty in

obtaining recruits at, 56; government divided between Quebec and

Montreal, 60; Haldimand relieved of command at, in 1765, 61-62; Indians

protected at, 147; Haldimand befriends Ursuline nuns at, 179; census

taken, 190, 231; question of inoculation for smallpox at, 229; schools

of, 233, 235; banns of marriage published at, 237; Loyalists sheltered

near, 254; Du Calvet arrested at, 280. =Bib.=: Sulte, Histoire des

Trois-Rivieres, 1534-1537 and Album d'Histoire des Trois-Rivieres,

1634-1721.