The second settlement was, first and foremost, an outpost for a
trading company that dealt mainly in furs.
The second Quebec
settlement, circa 1628
Photo: Steven Darby, Canadian
Museum of Civilization
Its central buildings housed clerks, merchants, agents, fur traders,
intermediaries or interpreters, soldiers, navy captains, sailors between
voyages and hired labourers. Its storehouses were used to stock furs, trade
goods and the provisions necessary for survival in the colony. The locksmith
and the gunsmith lived in separate houses outside the walls of the
settlement.
The settlement was built by labourers hired from the Compagnie de Caën,
which provided almost all the supplies.
