Laviolette is accompanied by tradesmen and soldiers who are constructing a fort and the first buildings, which will be used for their lodgings and to store the merchandise they took with them. This event may mark the birth of a second town in New France. Laviolette, whose full name is not known, will be the first commander of the Trois-Rivières post.
More than a century after it was founded, the city of Trois-Rivières had lost the characteristic look of a trading post, but retained its extremely advantageous position on the Saint Lawrence River.
