An Exhibition of Maps and Navigational Instruments, including: Novus Orbis: Images of the New World, 1507-1669. The Belle--one of the earliest and most important shipwrecks ever found in North America. The site includes numerous pictures relating the evolution of the project, as well as information on La Salle and his time. "It is along the St-Lawrence that many pages of our history were written; the history of a city; of a French, then English, colony; of a country." History of Sir William Phips maritime expeditions in New France. Frontenac's famous quote: "Je n'ai point de réponse à faire à votre général que par la bouche de mes canons..." was addressed to him. Description of the archeological survey and of the preservation of the wreck of a vessel from Phips' fleet, discovered in 1994. |
Last update: May 29, 2003 © Museum of New France Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation |
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