Portrait of the Cardinal de Richelieu. Source : Nos Racines (Our roots), booklet #5, page 95:

Today, the cardinal de Richelieu gathered those people who committed to « forming a company of one hundred associates and do their utmost to populate New France, also called Canada  ». According to the agreement they signed, in exchange for such privileges as owning the land of New France and an exclusive right to the fur trade, they will attempt «  with God's help, to instill in the the natives knowledge of the true God, police them, and bring them into the Roman apostolic fold by teaching them the catholic faith. ».

Of course, they must recruit settlers from France and catholics only, since their goal is to « ready the native mind for knowledge of the true God, and to populate the above-mentioned country with natural French catholics».

Moreover, the 100 associates promised to take part in settling new France by sending «  up to 300 men of all trades no later than next year, 1628, and over the next fifteen years until their numbers swell to four thousand of both sexes, for those fifteen years that will end in December of 1643 ».