A FIRST HOOKED mat

Les Filles du Roi-King's Daughters
Small first hooked piece by Celine Audet of Québec city.
BRAVO Celine!
With no supplies available she used yarn .Hoping now that she has discovered  the wide cut strips more  wonderful results will be viewed next time we all hook on the island!

Filles du Roi --"King's Daughters"

Between 1663 and 1673, 768 Filles du Roi or "King's Daughters" emigrated to New France under the sponsorship of the French government as part of the overall strategy of strengthening the colony until it could stand on its own without economic and military dependence on France.
In 1663, about 2,500 colonists lived in New France, for the most part on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence between Québec and Montréal. With a constant threat from the Iroquois and the more populous English colonies on the Atlantic coast, the need to populate New France became a growing concern for Louis XIV and his colonial advisors. Through the early 1670s however, men of marriageable age far outnumbered the women of marriageable age. Unable to find a wife in Québec, a great number of male immigrants returned to France after their three-year term of service expired.
Between 1634 and August 1663, while the colony was governed by the Compagnie des Cent Associés, about 262 filles à marier (marriageable girls) were recruited by individuals or by private religious groups who paid their travel expenses and provided for their lodging until they were married. But individual recruiters and private organizations had little success in enticing single women to emigrate to New France, and fewer than ten filles arrived in the colony in most years. In 1663, the King took over direct control of the government of New France and initiated an organized system of recruiting and transporting marriageable women to the colony. On September 22, 1663, thirty-six girls --the first group of Filles du Roi-- arrived in Québec.





I realize it is now thursday and the week has flown by . . .
blogging seems to have not made it onto my activity list . . .spring cleaning and organizing for  trip home to Nova Scotia in 3 weeks and 2 workshops to teach!

Still room in the Mahone Bay  workshop only . .read  here on right hand side of  this page for contact information.

Comments

  1. Her first piece? Wow. It's wonderful.

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  2. I just love this colour combo!! reminds me of a dress I used to wear!
    Lin

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