The lists of King’s Daughters and Soldiers of the Carignan-Salières Regiment featured on this website are primarily the work of Peter Gagné, historian, author, and honorary member of the Society. Peter Gagné spent many years conducting extensive research into the lives of the women and men who comprise these groups. The lists compiled by Peter were published originally in the Society’s journal, Sent by the King. Also contributing to these lists was Bill Kane, long-time editor of Sent by The King.
As Peter Gagné and others researching French-Canadian history have pointed out, there is no seventeenth-century list of the women who were sponsored by the King to come to the colony for the purposes of marrying and establishing families in the New World. Neither is there a list of the men who were members of the Carignan-Saliéres Regiment that arrived in 1665.
Over many years, researchers have spent countless hours combing through the original sources to glean information on the King’s Daughters and Carignan soldiers. These original or primary sources include the church records (baptisms, marriage, and burial records), census records, notarial records (marriage contracts and property transfer records), the annual reports of the Jesuits, the letters of Mother Marie of the Incarnation, the letters of Intendant Talon, and the records and proceedings of the Sovereign Council of Québec. The results of these later researchers, written primarily in French, have been published in books and journal articles, as well as online, and form a solid body of secondary sources.
Below is a list of Peter Gagné’s sources for the article “The Carignan Regiment Departed” published some years ago in Sent by the King. Vol. XIII, Issue I. This was a list of soldiers who either died while the regiment was in New France or who returned to France once their service was over. Again, this list illustrates the variety of material researched in compiling these lists.
Audet, François-Joseph. “Le rolle des soldats du régiment de Carignan-Salières qui se sont faits habitans de Canada en 1668.” Mémoires de la Société royale du Canada, No. 16 (1922), p. 129-141.
Gareau, Georges-Robert. Le Régiment de Carignan, 1665-1668: essai d’identificatiion des soldats. Anjou, QC: Édition G-R Gareau, 2001.
Jetté, René. Dictionnaire généalogique des familes du Québec. Montréal: Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 1983.
Leboeur, J.-Arthur. Complément au Dictionnaire Généalogique Tanguay. Montréal: Société Généalogique Canadienne-Française, 1957.
Programme de recherche en démographie historique de l’Université de Montréal. “Registre de la population de Québec ancien 1621-1765 database.
Roy, Régis et Gérard Malchelosse. Le Régiment de Carignan: son organisation et son expédition au Canada, 1665-1668. Officiers et soldats qui s’établirent en Canada, Montréal: G. Ducharme, 1925.
Société Archiv-Histo. “Parchemin” database of notarized records, 1635-1775.
Sulte, Benjamin. “Recensement de 1681.” Histoire des Canadiens-Français, 1608-1880: origine, histoire, religion, guerres, découvertes, colonisation, coutumes, vie domestique, sociale et politique, développement, avenir, Vol. 5. Montréal, Wilson & Cie, 1892, p. 53-92.
---. “Le Régiment de Carignan.” in Mélanges Historiques, Vol. 8. Montréal: G. Ducharme, 1922.
Tanguay, Cyprien. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles canadiennes depuis la fondation de la colonie jusqu’á nos jours. Montréal: Eusèbe Senécal & fils, 1871-1890.
Trudel, Marcel. La population du Canada en 1666. Recensement reconstitué. Sillery: Septentrion, 1995.
---. Le terrier du Saint-Laurent en 1674. Tome 1: De la Côte-Nord au lac Saint-Louis. Montréal: Éditions du Méridien, 1998.
---. Le terrier du Saint-Laurent en 1674. Tome 2: Du lac Saint-Louis à la Gaspésie. Montréal: Éditions du Méridien, 1998.
Verney, Jack. The Good Regiment: The Carignan-Salières Regiment in Canada, 1665-1668. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.
