User:ClaudeDavid/sandbox/Claude David
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| name = Claude David
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| birth_date = 1621
| birth_place = Bracquemont, Normandy, France
| death_date = {{death date|1687|11|30}}
| death_place = Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada
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| occupation = Explorer, fur trader
| known_for = Establishing Trois-Rivières as a prominent economic center in New France
| spouse = Suzanne de Noyon
| children = 4
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Claude David (1621 – 30 November 1687) was a French explorer and fur trader in New France. He is known for helping to expand Trois-Rivières, in modern Quebec, as a regional center of commerce for the colony. He was also the armourer on Médard des Groseilliers' voyage into the North American interior which would pave the way for a sharp uptake in French colonial expeditions into the Great Lakes.
Early life and immigration
Claude David was born in 1621 in Bracquemont, Normandy, France to his parents, Blaise David and Flavie Morel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mount-royal.ca/heritage/placesearch.php?psearch=Notre-Dame+de+Bracquemont,+archev.+Rouen+(ar.+Dieppe),+Seine-Maritime,+Normandie,+France&tree=godbout|title=Notre-Dame de Bracquemont, archev. Rouen (ar. Dieppe), Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France|website=www.mount-royal.ca|access-date=2020-04-23}} He was trained as a medical doctor,{{Cite book|last=Kellogg|first=Louise Phelps|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_aDQwNeY98C&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q=Claude+David&hl=en|title=The French Regime in Wisconsin and the Northwest|date=2007|publisher=Heritage Books|isbn=978-0-7884-1766-5|language=en}} although it is unclear whether he practiced in North America after he emigrated there.
In 1646, at the age of about 25, he immigrated from France to North America.{{Cite book|last=Thwaites|first=Reuben Gold|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cw4VAAAAYAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q=Claude+David&hl=en|title=The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes|date=1899|publisher=Burrows Bros. Company|language=en}} Once there, he was granted permission by Governor Charles Huault de Montmagny to clear land and build a settlement on present-day Saint-Quentin Island at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River and St. Lawrence River, a location critical for regulating the fur trade in the colony.{{Cite web|url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/david_claude_1E.html|title=Biography – DAVID, CLAUDE – Volume I (1000-1700) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography|website=www.biographi.ca|access-date=2020-04-23}} In 1649 he married Suzanne de Noyon, also from Normandy, France, with whom he would go on to have four children.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mount-royal.ca/heritage/getperson.php?personID=I12103&tree=godbout|title=Suzanne de Noyon b. 3 Apr 1626 Saint-Pierre-du-Châtel, Rouen (Seine-Maritime), Normandie, France d. 11 May 1701 Bécancour, Nicolet, Qc.|website=www.mount-royal.ca|access-date=2020-04-23}}{{Cite book|last=Thwaites|first=Reuben Gold|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cw4VAAAAYAAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&q=Claude+David&hl=en|title=The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes|date=1899|publisher=Burrows Bros. Company|language=en}}
Saint-Quentin Island, which became known informally at the time as "Claude David's island", quickly became a center of immigration and trade for Trois-Rivières and trade up the Saint-Maurice River. After clearing the island, Claude David spent the 1640s and 50s ceding land to new settlers on the island. In 1652 the colony ceded Claude David co-control over a surrounding island at the two river's confluence.{{Cite web|url=https://www.mount-royal.ca/heritage/getperson.php?personID=I12102&tree=godbout|title=Claude David b. Abt 1621 Notre-Dame de Bracquemont, archev. Rouen (ar. Dieppe), Seine-Maritime, Normandie, France d. 30 Nov 1687 Cap-de-la-Madeleine, Qc.|website=www.mount-royal.ca|access-date=2020-04-23}}
Groseilliers' voyage
Instrumental, fur trade{{Cite book|last=Kent, Timothy J.,|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/940513876|title=Phantoms of the French fur trade : twenty men who worked in the trade between 1618 and 1758|isbn=978-0-9657230-7-7|location=Ossineke, Michigan|oclc=940513876}}. Claude David is known for a part of the 1660 expedition
In 1663, Claude David personally returned to Trois-Rivières with 600,000 pounds of fur and 300 First Nations companions who would settle in the settlement. This influx of furs and new inhabitants dramatically increased the economic power of Trois-Rivières, so much so that it became the seat of regional government two years later in 1665.{{Cite web|url=https://kids.kiddle.co/Trois-Rivi%C3%A8res|title=Trois-Rivières Facts for Kids|website=kids.kiddle.co|access-date=2020-04-23}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.historymuseum.ca/virtual-museum-of-new-france/colonies-and-empires/governance-and-sites-of-power/|title=Governance and Sites of Power {{!}} Virtual Museum of New France|access-date=2020-04-23}}{{Cite book|last=Thwaites|first=Reuben Gold|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cw4VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=father%20menard%20and%20claude%20david&source=bl&ots=zn8_TOGCRC&sig=ACfU3U2sLC_zn4uuLLtzEPU2w11JRqOppA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijluiLn__oAhXmAZ0JHVtRBFEQ6AEwBXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=father%20menard%20and%20claude%20david&f=false|title=The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in New France, 1610-1791; the Original French, Latin, and Italian Texts, with English Translations and Notes|date=1899|publisher=Burrows Bros. Company|language=en}}
Later life
References
https://books.google.com/books?id=8_aDQwNeY98C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
Wikipedia:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board/Dictionary of Canadian Biography
https://books.google.com/books?id=Cw4VAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=father%20menard%20and%20claude%20david&source=bl&ots=zn8_TOGCRC&sig=ACfU3U2sLC_zn4uuLLtzEPU2w11JRqOppA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwijluiLn__oAhXmAZ0JHVtRBFEQ6AEwBXoECAcQAQ#v=onepage&q=father%20menard%20and%20claude%20david&f=false
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/David-103