Dugard of Rouen : French trade to Canada and the West Indies, 1729-1770 / Dale Miquelon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miquelon, Dale, 1940-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dugard, Robert, 1704-1770.

Dugard, Robert.

Société du Canada.

France--Commerce--Canada--History.

France.

Canada--Commerce--France--History.

Canada.

France--Commerce--West Indies--History.

West Indies--Commerce--France--History.

West Indies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1978.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 1953 the proprietor of the chateau of Bonneval at La Haye-Aubrée par Routot in the Norman department of Eure presented the French National Archives with a collection of eighteenth-century papers. They had been brought to the chateau by previous owners at the time of the French Revolution. The proprietor was unrelated to these shadowy figures, and the papers concerned neither his family nor the estate. Now deposited at the Archives Nationales in Paris, the 45 cartons of letters and business papers tell the story of the business activities of the Dugard family of Rouen. The earliest item in the collection is a bill of exchange dated 3 January 1658/59, and the last letter is from 1794. Most of the papers concern Roben Dugard, 1704-70, and a number of companies formed by him and several other Rouen merchants, among them the societé du Canada. Dugard and Company, as the societé may be called with less formality, was founded in 1729 to exploit the trade of Canada with France and the West Indies. Soon it directed its attention to the development of a Franco-Caribbean trade independent of its North-Atlantic commerce. The present history is a case study of a business partnership. The size and structure of eighteenth-century French business enterprises, the nature of French business finance, methods and maritime insurance, French commodities of trade and markets, and the relation of French business to government are all examined. So too is the manner and extent of the penetration of French business into Canada and the West Indies.

Contents:

I. Introduction: The Context of Prosperity, 1715-1770

II. The Founders and Their City

III. The New Company, 1729-1742

IV. Questions of Finance, 1729-1741

V. Cargoes Outward

VI. Quebec: A Colonial Trading Factory

VII. Trade in the West Indies

VIII. Destructions and Diversions

IX. The Lord Taketh Away

X, Conclusion: From Business History to the History of Society

Appendix A. Profiles of the Dugard Fleet

Appendix B. The Ships and Their Voyages

Appendix C. Voyages: Chronological List

Appendix D. Investment, Outlay, and Profit.

Notes:

Later version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.), University of Toronto, 1973 presented under the title: Robert Dugard and the Société du Canada of Rouen, 1729-1770.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-53060-0

9786613843050

0-7735-8350-5

OCLC:

767670831