The author’s larger work, ’Jean Talon, Intendant de la Nouvelle France’, is the principal source of information for the foregoing narrative.  Consult also Parkman, ’The Old Regime in Canada’; Colby, ’Canadian Types of the Old Regime’; Kingsford, ‘The History of Canada’, vol. i.; the chapters, ‘The Colony in its Political Relations’ and ‘The Colony in its Economic Relations,’ by Adam Shortt and Thomas Chapais, in ‘Canada and its Provinces’, vol. ii.

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