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Canada s First Big Businessman
Sent to France by the ambitious Louis XIV Intendant Jean Talon started Canada s first housing developments, built a shipyard, a Lrewery and a hemp industry and Lroke the power of the lordly Company of West July 1 1954 THOMAS B. COSTAIN
Canada s First Big Businessman
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Sent to France by the ambitious Louis XIV Intendant Jean Talon started Canada s first housing developments, built a shipyard, a Lrewery and a hemp industry and Lroke the power of the lordly Company of West
THOMAS B. COSTAIN
THE WHITE AND THE GOLD
THE OFFICE of Intendant was an important cog in the Grand Plan for New France, that ambitious dream which had lighted such a fire of enthusiasm behind the eyes of Louis XIV and which had been inaugurated so successfully by the humbling of the Iroquois in 1666. Whatever the fate of the plan itself, the King’s faith in his first Intendant, the great Jean Talon, was more than justified by