1913 MAISONNEUVE Founder of MONTREAL Tobacco Card C50 Canada History CANADIAN

Description: This card and is one in a series of 50 cards issued in Canada by the IMPERIAL Tobacco Company of Canada. One card was inserted with their packs of Cigarettes during 1913. The Series is entitled “Canadian Historical Portraits” and is listed in Burdicks American Card Catalogue as series C50. Each card depicts an image of a siginifcant figure from Canada ‘s Past . The back features fairly detailed information about the person and their place in Canada’s History. The particular one is # 4 from the series and features MAISONNEUVE. Here is some information I found about him on the internet: Paul de Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (February 15, 1612 – September 9, 1676) was a French military officer and the founder of Montreal in New France. In 1642 Ville-Marie was founded on the southern shore of Montreal island, where a chapel and a small settlement were built. A hospital, under the command of Jeanne Mance, was also established. Maisonneuve was the first governor of Montreal. The settlers maintained peaceful relations with the Algonquin people, one of the indigenous tribes of the area. The first year of the colony's existence was peaceful. In 1643 a flood threatened the city. Maisonneuve prayed to the Virgin Mary to stop the inundation and when it abated, he erected a cross atop Mount Royal. A cross has been maintained there to the current day. Of the local Amerindian tribes with whom these French settlers had contact with, the Mohawk, who were already trading with the Dutch and English in New York, resented French efforts to interrupt the trade. The Mohawk were based in present-day New York state, south of Montreal, and severely threatened the new colony. The Algonquin in contrast maintained peaceful relations with the newly arrived Europeans. Nevertheless, they were often at war with the Iroquois, who only discovered the existence of the new French settlement of Montreal, whose defence Maisonneuve commanded using his military training, in 1643. Already familiar with the terrain, the Iroquois would often observe and engage the French settlers from the safety of the woods. A devastating strategy, this was the beginning of a long conflict between the two groups as they were competing with each other for game and other resources. On March 30, 1644, the situation came to a head. Warned by their guard dogs as to the nearby presence of their enemies, a band of 30 settlers went into the forest to face their foes. Once in the woods, the French encountered 250 Iroquois in ambush, waiting for them. Retreating in the face of such uneven odds, M. de Maisonneuve remained last so the others could make it safely back to the fort, resulting in him being set upon by an Iroquois chief. In this decisive moment, M. de Maisonneuve fired twice on the chief,[2] thus "killing him with his bare hands" as is sometimes quoted about the event, before returning to the safety of the fort amid much fanfare. In 1645 Maisonneuve received news that his father had died, and he returned to France. While there, he was offered the position of governor of New France, but turned it down, wanting to continue his leadership of Ville-Marie. Maisonneuve returned to Montreal in 1647 and the wars with the Iroquois continued. In 1649, Maisonneuve stood as godfather for the first white child baptized in the colony. She was Pauline Hébert, the daughter of the fur-trader Augustin Hébert and his wife Adrienne Du Vivier, who had come to Montreal in 1648 with Maisonneuve and their elder daughter Jeanne. In the spring of 1651, the Iroquois attacks became so frequent and so violent that Ville-Marie thought its end had come. Maisonneuve made all the settlers take refuge in the fort. By 1652, the colony at Montreal had been so reduced that he was forced to return to France to raise 100 volunteers to go with him to the colony the following year. If the effort had failed, Montreal was to be abandoned and the survivors re-located downriver to Quebec City. When these 100 arrived in the fall of 1653, the population of Montreal was barely 50 people. They included Jacques Archambault, who dug the first water well of the island in 1657, at the request of Maisonneuve. Over time, the colony grew in size and eventually was large enough to be secure from the Iroquois threat. Control of the colony was taken from the missionary society and taken up by the crown in 1663. Maisonneuve had not enjoyed the favour of the new governor-general Augustin de Saffray de Mésy. In September 1665, Alexandre de Prouville, the lieutenant-general of Montreal, ordered Maisonneuve to return to France on indefinite leave. After twenty-four years as head of the colony, he left Montreal for good. The card measures 2 5/8 inches by 1 1/2 inches approximately. The card is free from creasing. I have scanned the card front and back fairly large for you to be able to judge condition for yourself. THESE CARDS WERE NEVER ISSUED IN THE U.S. Due to the lower population in Canada than in the US, print runs in Canada were much smaller compared with American Cards. Because of this the majority of all Canadian non sports cards are far scarcer than card issued in the US). Due to the lower population in Canada than in the US, print runs in Canada were much smaller compared with American Cards. (Because of this the majority of all Canadian non sports cards are far scarcer than cards issued in the USA and UK). 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